Kumar Ankur

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News Reporter at Free Press Journal (India)

A Techie, Blogger & Mentor | Shares Cloud Native, Microservices & Leadership Learnings | Loved Husband, Proud Dad | Founder of Vedcraft for Software Architects

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Google Cloud Next 2025: Elevating GenAI Capabilities to the Next Level

2 weeks ago | ankurkumarz.medium.com | Ankur Kumar |Kumar Ankur

Member-only storyAnkur Kumar·Subscribe4 min read·--Google has been the leading hyperscaler advancing GenAI capabilities for enterprises, and Google Cloud Next 2025 has advanced its mission with infrastructure like the Cloud Wide Area Network, Ironwood chip, and new AI models, like Gemini 2.5 Flash. This article summarizes the key announcements elevating enterprises’ AI capabilities further.
Top Ten Technology Trends for 2025

1 month ago | medium.com | Ankur Kumar |Kumar Ankur

Member-only storyAnkur Kumar·FollowPublished inVedcraft·11 min read·--Observing technology trends by analysts, research companies, and thought leaders creates awareness and helps build a broader perspective. This article synthesizes the top ten technology trends for 2025 and beyond based on my broader research, technology insights, observations, and industry experience. Click on the corresponding links to read about the technology trends published for 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.
Building Intelligent Apps with Agentic AI: Top Frameworks to Watch for in 2025

Jan 23, 2025 | medium.com | Ankur Kumar |Kumar Ankur

Ankur Kumar·FollowPublished inVedcraft·10 min read·--With the rise of Generative AI, 2025 is all set to extend the realm of building intelligent apps to accelerate productivity and efficiency. While LangChain (launched in 2022) became the first popular framework for building LLM-based applications, open-source and product communities have started innovating faster to make building such applications easier.
Key Takeaways from State of AI Report 2024

Nov 12, 2024 | medium.com | Ankur Kumar |Kumar Ankur

Ankur Kumar·FollowPublished inVedcraft·5 min read·--For the last six years (starting in 2018), AI investors Nathan Benaich and Air Street Capital have consistently published the State of AI Report. This article summarizes key takeaways from the 2024 report published here, along with the author’s interpretation of model cards, industry reports, research reports, and more available publicly.
Building Generative AI Capabilities with Databricks as a Foundational AI Platform

Sep 30, 2024 | medium.com | Ankur Kumar |Kumar Ankur

Ankur Kumar·FollowPublished inVedcraft·5 min read·--Databricks launched Lakehouse AI in 2023 as unified capabilities encompassing Data warehouse, Lakehouse, Machine learning, and Generative AI as depicted below. This article briefly introduces Databricks AI capabilities and shares early feedback/observations based on experimentation with their platform, particularly for Generative AI.
Evolution of In-memory database and in-memory data grid technology

May 26, 2024 | vedcraft.com | Ankur Kumar |Kumar Ankur

Over the years in-memory computing has evolved and played a significant role in modern architecture primarily as part of Data Platform solutions. In-memory data grid and in-memory database/datastore technology are part of the data platform ecosystem. Click here to read the previous article on the importance of caching and in-memory data grid technology.
Top 5 Open Source LLMs for Building Gen AI Enterprise Applications (2025)

Feb 5, 2024 | medium.com | Ankur Kumar |Kumar Ankur

Member-only storyAnkur Kumar·FollowPublished inVedcraft·6 min read·Feb 5, 2024--Large Language Models (LLMs) do not need any introduction with the rise of their massive adoption in the industry. Most enterprises have either adopted or are planning to adopt an LLM to build Generative AI-based enterprise applications supporting a variety of business use cases.
Unraveling the mystery: Severe dermatitis, multiple Allergies and Metabolic wasting (SAM) syndrome with a novel homozygous mutation in desmoglein 1

Jan 17, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Kumar Ankur

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X-Linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome: A Spectrum of Clinical and Immunological Profile and Novel Pathogenic Variants from Chandigarh, India

Jan 9, 2024 | karger.com | Kumar Ankur |Aaqib Zaffar

Introduction: X-linked lymphoproliferative syndrome (XLP) is a rare primary immune deficiency. Two types of XLP have been described: XLP-1 and XLP-2. Methods: We found 7 patients with XLP (3 had XLP-1 and 4 had XLP-2) after reviewing the data from Pediatric Immunodeficiency Clinic from 1997 to 2021. Results: Mean age at diagnosis was 3.8 years, and mean delay in diagnosis was 2.6 years. Five patients had recurrent episodes of infections.
Curcumin Inhibits Zika Virus NS3 Helicase Activity

Jan 4, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Kumar Ankur |Aparna Bhardwaj |Richa Joshi |Taniya Bhardwaj

AbstractIn the last decades, many efforts have been put forward in search of inhibitors/drugs specific to ZIKV-infected patients. These inhibitors include approved drugs, natural products, nucleosides, small molecules, and many others to inhibit Zika virus replication in cell and mouse models. In this regard, natural product curcumin has been widely explored in various disease conditions and found to have inhibition potential against ZIKV replication as well.

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11 Apr 25

Hyperscalers are on top of their game to monetise GenAI. Summarized key announcements w.r.t. GenAI during #GoogleCloudNEXT - feel free to share your learning as reply 👍🏻 https://t.co/oST7IVHr3a https://t.co/uZbkjrB0EE

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11 Apr 25

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Ankur Kumar @ankurkumarz

10 Apr 25

Google Cloud Next Day 1 highlighted promising GenAI capabilities as part of the Vertex AI Platform, Gemini 2.5, New Agentic Platform, A2A Protocol, and more for multi-agent capabilities. Summarized key takeaways from #GoogleCloudNEXT25 announcements: https://t.co/h2rbF1AVDi https://t.co/Cut15ihzDQ

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Articles

Google Cloud Next 2025: Elevating GenAI Capabilities to the Next Level

Top Ten Technology Trends for 2025

Building Intelligent Apps with Agentic AI: Top Frameworks to Watch for in 2025

Key Takeaways from State of AI Report 2024

Building Generative AI Capabilities with Databricks as a Foundational AI Platform

Evolution of In-memory database and in-memory data grid technology

Top 5 Open Source LLMs for Building Gen AI Enterprise Applications (2025)

Unraveling the mystery: Severe dermatitis, multiple Allergies and Metabolic wasting (SAM) syndrome with a novel homozygous mutation in desmoglein 1

X-Linked Lymphoproliferative Syndrome: A Spectrum of Clinical and Immunological Profile and Novel Pathogenic Variants from Chandigarh, India

Curcumin Inhibits Zika Virus NS3 Helicase Activity

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