

Anirban Ghoshal
Senior Writer
Anirban Ghoshal is a senior writer, covering enterprise software for CIO and databases and cloud infrastructure for InfoWorld.

AWS updates Amazon Bedrock service with new large language models
Apart from adding new features to Amazon Bedrock, AWS has also launched a new generative AI service, dubbed AWS HealthScribe, to help automatically create clinical documentation.

AWS’ Entity Resolution service to help enterprises improve data quality
The machine learning-powered service, accessible via a no-code interface in the AWS Management Console, can be used to match data from multiple data lakes or AWS storage, the company said.

Teradata acquires Stemma to boost AI-based data search for analytics
Stemma offers integrations with data warehouses, business intelligence tools, collaboration software and security tools.

Splunk’s new AI tools aim to ease security, observability tasks
The AI tools introduced at the company’s .conf2023 include the Splunk AI Assistant, Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit 5.4, Splunk App for Anomaly Detection, and the Splunk App for Data Science and Deep Learning 5.1.

Meta lets loose second generation of Llama AI models
Meta says organizations can download Llama 2 for free, and run it wherever they wish, for research and commercial purposes. Microsoft and AWS are already hosting it.

How Databricks is adding generative AI capabilities to its Delta Lake lakehouse
The Delta Lake updates aim at helping data professionals create generative AI capabilities for their enterprise with foundation models from MosaicML and Hugging Face, among others.

Databricks Delta Lake 3.0 to counter Apache Iceberg tables
The updates in Delta Lake 3.0 include a new universal table format, dubbed UniForm, a Delta Kernel, and liquid clustering to improve data read and write performance.

Snowflake updates target generative AI demand from enterprises
While Snowpark Container Services and an Nvidia partnership will help enterprises manage large language models, Streamlit and Git updates are squarely aimed at easing developers’ tasks.

Databricks’ $1.3 billion MosaicML acquisition to boost generative AI offerings
Databricks will add MosaicML's model-training capabilities to its lakehouse platform.
MongoDB Atlas updates focus on simplifying developer tasks
Updates include support for additional programming languages on AWS, easier installation of Atlas’ Kubernetes Operator, and a new Kotlin driver.

MongoDB adds vector search to Atlas database to help build AI apps
In addition to integrating Google Cloud’s Vertex AI foundation models, MongoDB is adding features aimed at making Atlas a complete developer data platform.