Jonathan Siddharth

Aug 1, 2024 | unite.ai | Jonathan Siddharth

As artificial general intelligence (AGI) rapidly advances, the conversation is shifting from philosophical debate to one of practical relevance, with immense opportunity to transform global businesses and human potential. Turing’s AGI Icons event series brings together AI innovators to discuss practical and responsible advancements of AGI solutions. On July 24, Turing hosted our second AGI Icons event at SHACK15, San Francisco’s exclusive hub for entrepreneurs and tech innovators.

Jul 25, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Jonathan Siddharth |Siddarth Jain |Patrick McFadin |Alex Williams

As the digital landscape evolves, large language models are transforming interactions with technology, creating a paradigm shift in automation and efficiency. According to recent projections, the global LLM market is set to skyrocket from $1.59 billion in 2023 to an astounding $2.59 merger as a critical trillion by 2030, driven by a 79.8% compounded annual growth rate. By 2025, over 750 million apps will heavily depend on LLMs, automating approximately 50% of all digital work.

Jul 22, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Mary Branscombe |Jonathan Siddharth |Brian Wald |David Cassel

The ECMAScript standard for JavaScript continues to add new language features in a deliberate way. This year there’s a mix of APIs that standardize common patterns that developers have been writing by hand or importing from third-party libraries — including some aimed specifically at library authors — plus improvements in string handling, regular expressions, multithreading and WebAssembly interoperability.

Jul 20, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Loraine Lawson |Jonathan Siddharth |Brian Wald |David Cassel

Astro had a big week, announcing its 4.12 release along with a new partnership with Netlify, which now sponsors Astro as its official deployment partner. We’ll be covering the partnership in more depth next week, but the big news in this Astro release is that it includes the first experimental release of Server Islands, which are the framework’s “new solution to integrate high-performance static HTML and dynamic server-generated components together.”Astro introduced islands in 2021.

Jul 17, 2024 | thenewstack.io | Joab Jackson |Jonathan Siddharth |Brian Wald |David Cassel

Think again if you’ve assumed the Linux Foundation’s Valkey project will just be a clone of the Redis database. The project’s maintainers — liberated from years of Redis’ tight leadership — want to evolve the key-value store to meet the emerging demands of today’s workloads and hardware platforms.