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4 days ago | 
bigdatawire.com | Ali Azhar
As data privacy faces relentless scrutiny, companies are racing to modernize their compliance strategies and adopt technologies that can manage risk at scale. A critical priority is establishing automated mechanisms for privacy and compliance enforcement. BigID, a data intelligence company, continues to emerge as a key player in the AI-powered data governance space.
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1 week ago | 
bigdatawire.com | Ali Azhar
Elon Musk’s Colossus AI infrastructure, said to be one of the most powerful AI computing clusters in the world, has just reached full operational capacity. Designed to push the boundaries of AI, this massive computing system now consists of 200,000 GPUs, all running on Tesla Megapack batteries. This is a significant milestone in Musk’s growing push into AI.
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1 week ago | 
bigdatawire.com | Ali Azhar
The open AI movement gains momentum with IBM’s latest contribution. The Linux Foundation has welcomed three new AI projects contributed by Big Blue into its LF AI & Data Foundation: Docling, BeeAI, and the Data Prep Kit. These projects reflect a growing shift toward open and collaborative AI development. Unlike proprietary solutions, which often limit customization and integration, these open-source tools provide developers with the flexibility to modify, improve, and adapt them to diverse needs.
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1 week ago | 
bigdatawire.com | Ali Azhar
Databricks and KPMG have made minority equity investments in LlamaIndex, a platform for agentic document workflows. These investments aim to accelerate the development and adoption of LlamaIndex’s flagship products, including the LlamaCloud and LlamaParse. In a world where valuable business information is buried in unstructured formats that AI struggles to process. LlamaIndex is designed to solve this problem, bridging the gap between legacy data and AI applications.
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2 weeks ago | 
bigdatawire.com | Ali Azhar
In its goal to create a fully managed end-to-end data movement platform, data integration company Fivetran has acquired Census, a startup specializing in Reverse extract, transform, and load (ETL), data activation, and operational analytics. The acquisition strengthens Fivetran’s role in helping enterprises move data from various sources into cloud databases while advancing its broader vision of making access to data as simple, secure, and reliable as possible.
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2 weeks ago | 
bigdatawire.com | Ali Azhar
Big data startup StarTree unveiled new enhancements to its platform on Wednesday, designed to improve AI-driven decision-making for enterprises. The company has launched AI-native features, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Vector Auto Embedding, while also making its Bring Your Own Kubernetes (BYOK) deployment model generally available.
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2 weeks ago | 
bigdatawire.com | Ali Azhar
Dataminr, a real-time AI-powered event detection platform, has introduced Dataminr Intel Agents, an autonomous AI capability designed to provide contextual analysis of emerging events, threats, and risks. As part of the company’s broader Agentic AI roadmap, Intel Agents aim to enhance real-time decision-making. According to Dataminr, organizations utilizing this new feature gain access to continuously updated insights that integrate both public and proprietary data.
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3 weeks ago | 
bigdatawire.com | Ali Azhar
GenAI has progressed at an astonishing pace over the last two and a half years. It began with a surge of exploration and hype in late 2022, followed by a wave of early adoption as tools like ChatGPT and enterprise copilots entered the daily workflows. By early 2024, the focus shifted to ROI and use-case maturity, as businesses sought measurable value from their AI investments. As AI adoption matures, a key question emerges: Have early movers realized strong returns? The data suggests they have.
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3 weeks ago | 
bigdatawire.com | Ali Azhar
Supabase has announced a $200 million Series D funding round led by Accel, with participation from Coatue, Y Combinator, Craft Ventures, and longtime investor Felicis. The post-money valuation for Supabase is reported to be around the $2 billion mark, as reported by Fortune. The funding comes seven months after a $80 million round led by Peak XV and Craft Ventures. The latest funding highlights a notable period of growth for the startup as an open-source backend-as-a-service platform.
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3 weeks ago | 
bigdatawire.com | Ali Azhar
SnapLogic, an enterprise integration and automation company, has made waves this week with three major announcements that mark a significant step forward in AI and innovation. From no-code agent development to modular API infrastructure and strategic partnerships, SnapLogic is positioning itself to become an “agentic enterprise,” where it leverages cutting-edge technologies to optimize operations and drive smarter automation for businesses.
