Frederic Lardinois

Portland

Senior AI Editor at The New Stack

I write about tech. Sr. Enterprise Editor at TC. Signal 860-208-3416 [email protected]

Articles

GitLab's Duo Assistant With Amazon Q Is Now Generally Available

1 week ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

Back at AWS re:Invent 2024, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and GitLab announced a deep integration between GitLab’s Duo AI assistant and the Amazon Q Developer platform and its agent capabilities. This mashup allows developers on GitLab to access the Q agents for help with code reviews, test generation and more, all without having to switch context by leaving the GitLab platform. After being in preview for the last few months, GitLab Duo with Amazon Q Developer is now generally available.
Google’s ADK Is a New Open Source Framework for Building Multiagent Systems

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

Google today launched the Agent Development Kit (ADK), a new open source framework for building multiagent systems. This is the same framework that enables Google Agentspace, the company’s service for building AI agents in the enterprise. Google promises that using the ADK, developers will be able to build an AI agent in under 100 lines of code. Using the ADK, developers can orchestrate their agent systems and create guardrails for the individual agents.
Google’s Agent2Agent Protocol Helps AI Agents Talk to Each Other

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

At its Cloud Next conference in Las Vegas, Google today announced a new open protocol that helps AI agents communicate with each other, no matter which framework the agent was built for. Agent2Agent, as it is called, is launching with the support of more than 50 of Google’s technology partners, including the likes of Atlassian, Box, Cohere, Intuit, Langchain, MongoDB, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, UKG, and Workday.
Redis Launches Vector Sets and a New Tool for Semantic Caching of LLM Responses

2 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

Redis, the company behind the eponymous in-memory key-value database, mostly made news in recent months because of its license change, which resulted in the launch of the Valkey project. Now, Redis is hoping to change the conversation a bit with the launch of two new AI-centric products ahead of the launch of Redis 8 on May 1. The first of these is a new caching tool, LangCache, which allows developers to bring large language model (LLM) response caching to its applications.
NVIDIA Open Sources KAI Scheduler To Help AI Teams Optimize GPU Utilization

3 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

At KubeCon Europe, NVIDIA announced today that it is open sourcing KAI Scheduler, a GPU-centric Kubernetes scheduler that was originally developed by Run:ai, which NVIDIA acquired last year. Available under the Apache 2.0 license, KAI Scheduler helps its users optimize GPU resource allocations for AI and machine learning workloads in GPU clusters.
Akamai Picks Up Hosting for Kernel.org

4 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

Akamai is making a series of announcements today ahead of next week’s KubeCon EU conference in London. Among other news, Akamai today launched an inferencing service for AI applications with additional support for WebAssembly (WASM) workloads, and announced that it is now an infrastructure partner for kernel.org, the main distribution system for the Linux kernel source code, and will pick up its hosting and offer cloud computing and content delivery network support.
WebAI and MacStadium Launch an AI Inferencing Service Based on Apple Silicon

4 weeks ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

Modern Macs, in part because of the unified memory architecture of Apple’s modern System-on-a-Chip platform, are a favorite among developers who want to use large language models (LLMs) locally. That’s great during the development process — and also simply fun to try out — but very few companies then deploy their models on Apple Silicon. For a while now, webAI has focused on bringing machine learning and small generative AI models to Apple devices, both phones and desktops.
Tobiko Launches Its SQLMesh-Based Cloud Service Into GA

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

Tobiko is the company behind the open source SQLMesh project, a data transformation framework that aims to allow developers to more easily and efficiently ship data. Tobiko is making its enterprise-ready cloud service Tobiko Cloud generally available today. The new service extends the SQLMesh project with enterprise features like single sign-on and role-based access controls on top of the existing scheduling and observability features that are already part of Apache 2.0-licensed SQLMesh.
Why D-Wave Thinks Quantum Is the Next Step for Blockchain

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

Two weeks ago, D-Wave made a splash when its researchers published a paper in Science that claimed that its latest annealing quantum computer had been able to solve a complex materials science simulation problem that, D-Wave claims, would have taken a classical supercomputer a million years to solve. Now, D-Wave wants to use this same quantum computer and algorithm to power blockchain applications, by offering a faster and environmentally friendly alternative to today’s mining operations.
Cloudflare for AI Helps Businesses Safely Use AI

1 month ago | thenewstack.io | Frederic Lardinois

Cloudflare, the content delivery and security service, today announced the launch of Cloudflare for AI, a new suite of security tools that aims to address some of the most pressing security concerns that businesses have around the use of AI models and services. These include tools to monitor how employees use these tools, discover when they use unauthorized services, and stop information leakage to these models.