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There’s more to AI chips than NVIDIA: AMD, Intel, chiplets, upstarts, analog AI, optical computing, and AI chips designed by AI.

The interest and investment in AI is skyrocketing, and generative AI is fueling it. Over one-third of CxOs have reportedly already embraced GenAI in their operations, with nearly half preparing to invest in it.

What’s powering it all - AI chips - used to receive less attention. Up to the moment OpenAI’s Sam Altman claimed he wants to raise up to $7 trillion for a “wildly-ambitious” tech project to boost the world’s chip capacity. Geopolitics and sensationalism aside, however, keeping an eye on AI chips means being aware of today’s blockers and tomorrow’s opportunities.

According to a recent study by IMARC, the global AI chip market is expected to reach $89.6 Billion by 2029. The demand for AI chips has increased substantially over time. Growth in AI technology, rising demand for AI chips in consumer electronics and AI chip innovation all contribute to this forecast.

Few people have more insights to share on AI hardware than Tony Pialis, CEO and co-founder of Alphawave. In an extensive conversation, Pialis shared his insider’s perspective on the AI chip landscape, the transformative rise of chiplets, specialized hardware for training and inference, emerging directions like analog and optical computing, and much more.

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For many organizations today, data management comes down to handing over their data to one of the "Big 5" data vendors: Amazon, Microsoft Azure and Google, plus Snowflake and Databricks. 

But analysts David Vellante and George Gilbert believe that the needs of modern data applications coupled with the evolution of open storage management may lead to the emergence of a "sixth data platform".

The sixth data platform hypothesis is that open data formats may enable interoperability, leading the transition away from vertically integrated vendor-controlled platforms towards independent management of data storage and permissions.

It's an interesting scenario, and one that would benefit users by forcing vendors to compete for every workload based on the business value delivered, irrespective of lock-in. But how close are we to realizing this?

To answer this question, we have to examine open data formats and their interoperability potential across clouds and formats, as well as on the semantics and governance layer.

We caught up with Peter Corless and Alex Merced to talk about all of that.

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What is a skills-based economy and how is LinkedIn moving from vision to implementation?

As LinkedIn Director of Engineering Sofus Macskássy shares, there's AI, taxonomy, and ontology involved in building the Skills Graph that powers the transition.

We discuss the process of extracting skills from text, building a skills graph, and leveraging it for various product lines within LinkedIn.

We cover aspects related to explicit and implicit skill provenance, credibility, depth and interoperability.

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Amazon Neptune, the managed graph database service by AWS, makes analytics faster and more agile while introducing a vision aiming to simplify graph databases.

It's not every day that you hear product leads questioning the utility of their own products. Brad Beebe, the general manager of Amazon Neptune, was all serious when he said that most customers don't actually want a graph database. However, that statement needs contextualization.

If Bebee had meant that in the literal sense, the team himself and Amazon Neptune Principal Product Manager Denise Gosnell lead would not have bothered developing and releasing a brand new analytics engine for their customers. We caught up with Bebee and Gosnell to discuss Amazon Neptune new features and the broader vision. 

We cover where Amazon Neptune fits in the AWS vision of data management, and how the new analytics engine provides a single service for graph workloads, high performance for graph analytic queries and graph algorithms, and vector store and search capabilities for Generative AI applications. We also share insights on the One Graph vision, the road from serverless to One Graph via HPC, as well as vectors and Graph AI.

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00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:44 Amazon Neptune & AWS vision of data management

00:05:35 The Importance of Graph Databases  

00:08:55 Amazon Neptune Use Cases

00:13:13 Introduction to Amazon Neptune Analytics  

00:15:20 Key Features of Neptune Analytics  

00:17:40 Use Cases for Neptune Analytics 

00:21:10 Preparing Data for Generative AI Applications

00:23:37 Neptune Analytics Use Cases and Deployment

00:26:43 Pricing and Roadmap Q&A

00:48:46 Conclusion

“Graph database growth is going strong through the Trough of Disillusionment.” And “Graph Analytics go big and real-time.” These were two of the headlines of the Spring 2023 update of the Year of the Graph newsletter. In combination, they seem like an appropriate summary of the reasoning behind a new entry in the graph database market: Aerospike Graph, which Aerospike officially unveiled in June 2023.

We caught up with the company’s Chief Product Officer Lenley Hensarling to discuss this long journey that started about three years ago, as well as Aerospike's differentiation in a very densely populated market.

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LinkedIn is a case study in terms of how its newsfeed has evolved over the years.

LinkedIn's feed has come a long way since the early days of assembling the machine learning infrastructure that powers it.

Recently, a major update to this infrastructure was released. We caught up with the people behind it to discuss how the principle of being people-centric translates to technical terms and implementation.

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Would you leave a Google Staff Research Engineer role just because you want your TV to automatically pause when you get up to get a cup of tea? Actually, how is that even relevant, you might ask. Let's see what Pete Warden, former Google Staff Research Engineer and now CEO and Founder of Useful Sensors, has to say about that.

Although naturally much of what he did was based off things others were already working on, Warden is sometimes credited as having kickstarted the TinyML subdomain of machine learning. Either way TinyML is getting big, and Warden is a big part of it.

Useful Sensors is Warden's latest venture. They just launched a product called AI in a Box, which they dubs an "offline, private, open source LLM for conversations and more". Even though it's not the first product Useful Sensors has created, it's the first one that's officially launched. That was a good opportunity to catch up with Warden and talk about what they are working on.

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Neo4j recently announced new product features in collaboration with Google, as well as a new Chief Product Officer coming from Google: Sudhir Hasbe.

We caught up to discuss what the future holds for Neo4j as well as the broader graph database space.

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In an era of dried-up funding and Data Lakehouse vendor supremacy, Redpanda is going against the grain.

The company just secured a $100 million Series C funding round to execute on an unconventional strategy.

Redpanda Founder and CEO Alex Gallego explains how things work for the company.

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The EU Parliament just voted to bring the EU AI Act regulation into effect. If GDPR is anything to go by, that's a big deal.

Here's what and how it's likely to effect, its blind spots, what happens next, and how you can prepare for it based on what we know.

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