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Snowflake Touts Speed, Efficiency of New ‘Arctic’ LLM
Snowflake today took the wraps off Arctic, a new large language model (LLM) that is available under an Apache 2.0 license. The company says Arctic’s unique mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, combined with its relat Read more…
Big Data Career Notes: February 2024 Edition
In this monthly feature, we’ll keep you up-to-date on the latest career developments for individuals in the big data community. Whether it’s a promotion, new company hire, or even an accolade, we’ve got the details Read more…
Does Big Data Still Need Stacks?
The IT industry loves its stacks. First there was the LAMP stack, then the Hadoop stack became popular. Over the past five years, something called the Modern Data Stack has taken hold in our collective data psyche, and n Read more…
Putting Your Data On the Table
One of the big breakthroughs in data engineering over the past seven to eight years is the emergence of table formats. Typically layered atop column-oriented Parquet files, table formats like Apache Iceberg, Delta, and A Read more…
The Data Lakehouse Is On the Horizon, But It’s Not Smooth Sailing Yet
Data warehouses and data lakes serve clear and distinct purposes. Typically, data warehouses store structured data according to a predefined schema to generate fast query speeds for reporting purposes. Data lakes, on t Read more…
Neon Looks to Light Up Cloud Postgres Market
When it comes to relational databases, Postgres reigns supreme, especially in the cloud. However, running the open source database in the modern cloud manner leaves something to be desired. That’s the functionality gap Read more…
How Broad Is Your Database’s Data Ecosystem? Gartner Takes a Look
The days of databases existing as islands unto themselves are over, according to Gartner, which reports the existence of a strong and growing signal for cloud databases to become part of “broader data ecosystems.” La Read more…
Postgres Rolls Into 2024 with Massive Momentum. Can It Keep It Up?
If you deployed a new database in 2023, chances are good that it was Postgres or one of Postgres’ many derivatives for analytics and transactional workloads. There’s no denying the huge popularity of the database, wh Read more…
2024 GenAI Predictions: Part One
Something unexpected happened in 2023: the world learned about generative AI for the first time. Now that the GenAI cat is out of the bag, companies are in a race to monetize it without succumbing to its negative aspects Read more…
What Will 2024 Bring to Advance Analytics?
As the amount of data continues to grow, so does the potential for advanced analytics to make sense of it all. In 2024, tremendous progress will be made in analytics, according to our merry band of prognosticators. It Read more…
This Just In
SAN FRANCISCO, May 9, 2024 — Snowflake will host its largest user-conference ever with Snowflake Data Cloud Summit 2024, live in San Francisco from June 3-6, 2024. Read more…
April 24, 2024 — Snowflake today announced Snowflake Arctic, a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) uniquely designed to be the most open, enterprise-grade LLM on the market. Read more…
March 28, 2024 — Snowflake today announced the general availability of Snowflake Data Clean Rooms to customers in AWS East, AWS West, and Azure West, revolutionizing how enterprises of all sizes can securely share data and collaborate in a privacy-preserving manner to achieve high value business outcomes in the Data Cloud. Read more…
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 18, 2024 — Snowflake today announced at NVIDIA GTC an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA that further empowers enterprise customers with an AI platform, bringing together the full-stack NVIDIA accelerated platform with the trusted data foundation and secure AI of Snowflake’s Data Cloud. Read more…
March 5, 2024 — Snowflake and Mistral AI today announced a global partnership to bring Mistral AI’s most powerful language models directly to Snowflake customers in the Data Cloud. Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8, 2024 — Weaviate is an open source vector database that’s purpose built for AI. Today, Weaviate announces its integration with Snowflake’s Snowpark Container Services (currently in public preview), a fully managed container offering designed to facilitate the deployment, management, and scaling of containerized applications within the Snowflake ecosystem. Read more…
NEW YORK, Feb. 8, 2024 — Gulp Data, a provider of data valuations, data-backed loans, and data monetization services, today announced its new partnership with Snowflake, the Data Cloud company that empowers organizations to explore, share, and unlock the true value of their data. Read more…
PORTLAND, Maine, Feb. 6, 2024 — HighByte, an industrial software company, today announced the release of HighByte Intelligence Hub version 3.3 that offers new and improved interoperability with industry-leading cloud services, including the Snowflake Data Cloud and AWS IoT SiteWise. Read more…
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 31, 2024 — H2O.ai, an open source leader in Generative AI and machine learning, today announced a significant breakthrough in reducing the cost of inferencing through its integration with the Snowflake Data Cloud. Read more…
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 19, 2024 — Equilar is proud to introduce Equilar RainMaker, available on Snowflake Marketplace. Equilar RainMaker is an app native to the Snowflake Data Cloud that is designed to operationalize valuable customer relationship data and accelerate growth opportunities. Read more…