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Press enter or click to view image in full size As many of you know, I’ve been a Spark pioneer from the very beginning, popularizing Spark at SF Scala, cofounding the very first Spark meetup, and presenting it to developer audiences around the world. When Big Data was as
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On April 17, I went to the Gemma 4 launch: SF Edition at the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco. It was one of those Bay Area AI evenings where the setting does half the storytelling before anyone says a word: the sharp geometry of the Pyramid above us, the city
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-- -- Slava Tykhonov is an innovator in Graph+AI space for decades. He’s been a lead R&D engineer, and now an ambassador, of Dataverse — a distributed public repository of datasets enabling science across the world. Now Slava is a Head of AI and Interoperability at CODATA, a European
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Press enter or click to view image in full size Long before “agentic AI” entered the mainstream lexicon, Dr. Alexy Khrabrov was building its intellectual foundations. In 1999, working alongside George Cybenko at Dartmouth, Khrabrov co-authored Information Architecture and Agents, a landmark survey of the architecture and properties of
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Generative AI (GenAI) started a revolution in software eating the world. It was eating the world piecemeally and rather peacefully until the end of 2022, albeit at a gradually accelerating pace. Software, as always until then, was used to automate and amplify certain areas of human activity in the same
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This November (11/17–19), AI By the Bay, the iconic independent developer conference, returns to the Temple of Data and AI in Oakland for the 11th year. Scale, Data and AI By the Bay, since 2013 It’s not just a conference, it’s a community of the best
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With Emil Eifrem at the Spring 2024 Graph Gathering Last year, I’ve joined Neo4j, the category-creating Graph Database company. As most developers, I am fond of graph algorithms, and knew about Neo4j for many years — almost two decades in fact! My fellow cofounder of one of the previous
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-- -- Press enter or click to view image in full size Really, what is it? Right now, most people think it’s an LLM. Which in turn is a compression of a whole bunch of knowledge recorded as documents, scraped off the web. Or a set of images or even sounds.
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-- -- Press enter or click to view image in full size When we reframe the AI adoption problem as building hirable GenAI workers, we resolve a lot of tension and uncertainty by grounding the workflow in the traditional HR setup. Granted it evolves to accommodate the AI workers, we still start
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After a year and a half of GenAI boom, one thing is clear: businesses are not ready to adopt it. Despite billions spent on PoC, the actual deployments are rare and in non-critical paths, such as marketing. Why is that? There are multiple reasons for slow adoption. Still the
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Press enter or click to view image in full size Friends — after the pandemic online twilight zone, Scale By the Bay, the most human-centric of the few remaining independent developer conferences, is coming back in-person on November 13–15, on the shores of the Lake Merritt in Oakland!
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HuggingFace, the AI community company, is everywhere now. The Model Hub on HF has become a de facto community watering hole, where everyone checks in and takes the pulse of AI. Sharing models on the hub is now the standard way to share your AI work. It hasn’t been