In this week’s real-time analytics news: The European Union launched InvestAI, an initiative that includes funding for four AI gigafactories.
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The European Union launched InvestAI, an initiative to mobilize €200 billion for investment in AI, including a new European fund of €20 billion for AI gigafactories. The large AI infrastructure is needed to allow open, collaborative development of the most complex AI models and to make Europe an AI continent.
The EU’s InvestAI fund will finance four future AI gigafactories across the EU. The new AI gigafactories will specialize in training the most complex, very large AI models. Such next-generation models require extensive computing infrastructure for breakthroughs in specific domains such as medicine or science. The gigafactories will have around 100,000 last-generation AI chips, which is around four times more than the AI factories that are being set up right now.
Other real-time analytics news in brief
Airbyte announced that it is offering customers predictable pricing based on capacity – rather than data volumes – to accommodate modern data needs for artificial intelligence (AI), data lakes, and real-time analytics. The new pricing applies to Airbyte Teams and Enterprise products, with pricing determined by the number of connections/data sources, frequency of data refreshes (daily, hourly, real-time), and pipeline scheduling requirements. For Airbyte Cloud, there are no changes because pay-as-you-go and credit-based pricing can work well for customers with fewer data sources and more predictable data needs that benefit from not having to build and maintain that infrastructure themselves.
Ataccama launched Ataccama Lineage, a new module within its Ataccama ONE unified data trust platform (V16). Ataccama Lineage provides enterprise-wide visibility into data flows, offering organizations a clear view of their data’s journey from source to consumption. It helps teams trace data origins, resolve issues quickly, and ensure compliance—enhancing transparency and building confidence in data accuracy for business decision-making. The solution is fully integrated with Ataccama’s data quality, observability, governance, and master data management capabilities.
Confluent and Databricks announced a major expansion in their partnership that brings together Confluent’s complete Data Streaming Platform and Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform to empower enterprises with real-time data for AI-driven decision-making. New integrations between Confluent’s Tableflow and Databricks Unity Catalog will seamlessly govern data across operational and analytical systems, allowing businesses to build AI applications more efficiently.
DataRobot announced it has acquired Agnostiq and its open-source distributed computing platform, Covalent. The acquisition will allow DataRobot to accelerate agentic AI application development with advanced compute orchestration and optimization. Specifically, the acquisition will provide heterogeneous compute orchestration to accelerate AI deployment, reduce AI infrastructure complexity and costs, and provide an open and agnostic approach for greater tool and infrastructure flexibility.
Deepgram announced the launch of Nova-3, its most advanced speech-to-text (STT) model to date. Nova-3 pushes the boundaries of AI-driven transcription, offering unmatched accuracy in challenging audio environments while offering flexible, self-service customization to tailor results for industry-specific needs. The solution’s full-featured platform and high-performance runtime include powerful automation and data capabilities—such as synthetic data generation and model curation—along with model hot-swapping and robust integrations, empowering developers to efficiently build and scale voice-enabled applications.
Glean announced Glean Agents, a horizontal agent environment that empowers any business and every employee to build AI agents at work. Coupled with the introduction of universal knowledge, agents built in Glean gain access to a broad range of data – enterprise structured and unstructured data and world (internet) data, both historical and real-time. To underpin its platform, Glean strengthens trust with new robust data and AI governance features, ensuring security, compliance, and control at every stage of customer adoption.
Hitachi Vantara announced an alliance with BMC Software to innovate and optimize faster on mainframe and open systems environments. This collaboration will combine Hitachi Vantara’s advanced storage platforms with BMC’s software offerings, enabling enterprises to maximize the value of their data. The combination of the BMC AMI mainframe software portfolio with Hitachi Vantara’s Virtual Storage Platform One and Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) will provide robust features designed to streamline operations across mainframes and reduce operating costs.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that it has shipped its first NVIDIA Blackwell family-based solution, the NVIDIA GB200 NVL72. This rack-scale system is designed to help large enterprises quickly deploy very large, complex AI clusters with advanced, direct liquid cooling solutions to optimize efficiency and performance. The NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 features shared-memory, low-latency architecture with the latest GPU technology designed for extremely large AI models of over a trillion parameters in one memory space.
Hydrolix announced that it has achieved the Amazon CloudFront Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program. This designation recognizes that Hydrolix has demonstrated successful integration with Amazon CloudFront. Achieving the Amazon CloudFront Ready designation differentiates Hydrolix as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member with a product integrating with Amazon CloudFront and is generally available and fully supported for AWS customers.
Imagimob, an Infineon Technologies AG company, has launched DEEPCRAFT Starter Models, the newest addition to the DEEPCRAFT Edge AI software portfolio. DEEPCRAFT Starter Models, which are free and open source, are intended to give developers inspiration and a solid starting point for creating custom machine learning models. They include the datasets, preprocessing, model architecture, and instructions that developers need to turn them into production-ready Edge AI models.
Snowflake unveiled Cortex Agents, a fully managed service that simplifies the integration, retrieval, and processing of structured and unstructured data — helping enterprises build high-quality agents at scale. As a part of the launch, Snowflake has also made multiple improvements to Cortex Analyst and Cortex Search, the underlying tools powering Cortex Agents. Cortex Analyst is now generally available with Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet as the key LLMpowering agentic text-to-SQL for high-quality structured data retrieval. And Cortex Search now achieves state-of-the-art quality, outperforming competing enterprise search stacks on retrieval accuracy (NDCG@10) with OpenAI embedding models.
Zilliz, the company behind the open-source vector database Milvus, announced the release of an upgraded version of Zilliz Cloud Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC). Available now, Zilliz Cloud empowers enterprises to run AI workloads where their data resides while maintaining full control and accelerating AI adoption without compromising security or compliance. Zilliz Cloud BYOC is built on open-source Milvus and features several enterprise-grade security capabilities.
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