Shubham Sharma

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SAP integrates Databricks to enhance AI readiness with new Business Data Cloud

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More German software giant SAP is pushing the bar on the data front to power next-gen AI use cases. The company today introduced Business Data Cloud (BDC), a new SaaS product that embraces lakehouse architecture to help teams enrich their SAP ecosystem data with external data assets from different source systems and drive long-term value. The product

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Open-source DeepSeek-R1 uses pure reinforcement learning to match OpenAI o1 — at 95% less cost

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, known for challenging leading AI vendors with open-source technologies, just dropped another bombshell: a new open reasoning LLM called DeepSeek-R1. Based on the recently introduced DeepSeek V3 mixture-of-experts model, DeepSeek-R1 matches the performance of o1, OpenAI’s frontier reasoning LLM, across math, coding and reasoning tasks. The best part? It does this at

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Devin 1.2: Updated AI engineer enhances coding with smarter in-context reasoning, voice integration

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Last year, Cognition started the AI agent wave with a product called Devin — the world’s first AI engineer. The offering was under wraps for several months, but now it’s generally available and learning new chops very quickly. Case in point: the Scott Wu-led startup has just released Devin 1.2, which brings a bunch of new

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Microsoft launches Copilot Chat with AI agents; take that, Gemini!

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft has been positioning Copilot as the “UI for AI.” The company has already launched several variants of the GPT-4o-powered assistant for business and personal users. Now, as the next step in this work, it is launching Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat — a rebranded version of its free AI chat experience for businesses, enhanced with agentic

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Why 2025 will redefine data infrastructure: 11 expert insights on sovereign clouds, exploding data, PaaS and more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More If 2023 was all about generative AI-powered chatbots and search, 2024 introduced agentic AI — tools capable of planning and executing multi-step actions across digital environments. From Devin’s engineering breakthroughs to Microsoft’s early trials with Copilot Vision, the innovations were diverse, but one constant remained: the need to keep data infrastructure organized and reliable. As enterprises

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DeepSeek-V3, ultra-large open-source AI, outperforms Llama and Qwen on launch

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, known for challenging leading AI vendors with its innovative open-source technologies, today released a new ultra-large model: DeepSeek-V3. Available via Hugging Face under the company’s license agreement, the new model comes with 671B parameters but uses a mixture-of-experts architecture to activate only select parameters, in order to handle given tasks accurately and

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Perplexity’s Carbon integration will make it easier for enterprises to connect their data to AI search

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More 2024 has been a banner year for Perplexity. The AI search startup, founded by former DeepMind and OpenAI researcher Aravind Srinivas, raised hundreds of millions of dollars — its latest funding round reportedly valuing the company at $9 billion — and introduced several notable features, including Pages, Spaces, and innovative shopping experiences. These developments have solidified

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