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IBM watsonx.governance Tackles AI Risk Management
Mark Beccue

IBM watsonx.governance Tackles AI Risk Management

Comprehensive AI Governance Is Critical to AI Success
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines IBM’s announcement of watsonx.governance, a new solution for AI risk management. AI risk management is foundational and critical to operationalizing AI. Enterprises will learn this either the hard way, through ignoring it, or the easier way, by embracing it. IBM is in a great position to help enterprises navigate AI risk management. The research note explores the key takeaways related to IBM’s strategic move in this space.
Next-Generation Compute: Agents for Amazon Bedrock Complete Tasks
Mark Beccue

Next-Generation Compute: Agents for Amazon Bedrock Complete Tasks

AI Assistants Are Morphing Beyond Interfaces to Automate Application Tasks
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines Amazon’s preview of agents for Amazon Bedrock, which will enable developers to create agents based on foundational models (FMs) that can manage and perform tasks within multiple applications. The note explores the key takeaways related to Amazon’s strategic move in with task-completing agents.
Cohere Launches Coral, a New AI-Powered Knowledge Assistant
Mark Beccue

Cohere Launches Coral, a New AI-Powered Knowledge Assistant

Growing Sophistication of AI Assistants Signals Next-Generation Computing
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines Cohere’s launch of Coral, a new AI-based knowledge assistant. Open AI introduced ChatGPT a mere 9 months ago. In that short amount of time, the concept of an AI assistant has evolved and mutated rapidly to a point where the challenges for LLM-based AI assistants are being addressed and enterprise requirements are part of their design. The research note explores what Coral’s debut signals about what is likely to happen next with AI assistants and whether or not we are on the cusp of next-generation computing.
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic Form AI Industry Group
Mark Beccue

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic Form AI Industry Group

Frontier Model Forum Is a Logical Step to Normalizing GenAI Through Advocacy
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines the announcement by Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic about the launch of the Frontier Model Forum, which he asserts is a logical step to normalizing Gen AI through advocacy. AI advocates have struggled for several years to coalesce and unify to form a definitive AI industry group. There is a good reason for this – AI is broadly diffused technology and it applies across a massive range of industry sectors and interests. It has taken a disruption moment in the form of generative AI to unify advocacy. The Frontier Model Forum has the potential to solidify AI advocacy. The research note explores the key takeaways and the potential impact of the Frontier Model Forum.
The EU’s AI Act: Q3 2023 Update
Mark Beccue

The EU’s AI Act: Q3 2023 Update

Basics of the Legislation, Current Status, and Predictions
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines the scope, current status, and outlook for the EU’s AI Act. The research note provides a quick summary of the AI Act, the current status of the legislation, observations as to what the AI ecosystem is doing to influence the legislation, and what The Futurum Group thinks will happen with the AI Act through the end of 2023.
Qualcomm-Meta Llama 2 Could Unleash LLM Apps at the Edge
Mark Beccue

Qualcomm-Meta Llama 2 Could Unleash LLM Apps at the Edge

Is It Counterintuitive to Think Compute-Hungry LLMs Can Work at the Edge? Two Tech Giants Map a Path
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines Qualcomm and Meta’s partnership to implement Llama 2-based AI capabilities on smartphones and PCs starting in 2024. The idea that LLM applications could be run on compute-cost efficient edge devices is enough to make most AI application developers’ imaginations run wild, since this capability would bring lots of potential new use cases and business opportunities
Google Cloud Engineering Exec: Welcome to Generative Engineering
Mark Beccue

Google Cloud Engineering Exec: Welcome to Generative Engineering

Generative AI Could Reduce Enterprise Dependence on Data Science Expertise
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines how generative AI could reduce enterprise dependence on data science expertise. The piece explores Google Cloud Engineering executive Andi Gutmans’ premise, which is bold and framed in a way that many have previously alluded to: that generative AI democratizes AI uses. Will GenEng emerge, and what are the potential impacts?
Generative AI Investment Accelerating: $1.3 Billion for LLM Inflection
Mark Beccue

Generative AI Investment Accelerating: $1.3 Billion for LLM Inflection

Major Investments Coming for Specific Areas of Generative AI
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines the $1.3 billion investment in LLM provider Inflection, and the transaction’s implications for the industry. The Inflection funding marks a significant milestone in the generative AI landscape.
UK AI Regulations Criticized A cautionary tale for AI Safety
Mark Beccue

UK AI Regulations Criticized: A Cautionary Tale for AI Safety

Ada Lovelace Institute Report Reveals the Challenge to Balancing Pro-Business AI Priorities With Pro-Consumer AI Protections
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group, examines a new Ada Lovelace Institute report that reveals the challenge to balancing pro-business AI wishes with pro-consumer AI protections. The piece explores how the current AI policy debate in the UK is a great example of the struggle to find equilibrium, where business can thrive and the public is sufficiently protected. The current AI Safety approach will not help the UK become an AI leader, and the approach is essentially a good example of what not to do to build sensible AI regulations that benefit business and the public.
GitHub CoPilot Research- Is Automated Code Development the Killer GenAI App?
Mark Beccue

GitHub CoPilot Research: Is Automated Code Development the Killer GenAI App?

Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group examines GitHub’s recent research findings related to usage patterns for GitHub CoPilot, its automated code development tool. The piece explores why GitHub’s research, which confirms other anecdotal evidence, is a remarkable signpost to the impact generative AI-powered automated code development is having. While copyright issues could be an impediment, right now, automated code development looks like the killer GenAI app.
Databricks’ MosaicML Acquisition, LakehouseIQ Launch, Data + AI Summit Show Gen AI Savvy
Mark Beccue

Databricks’ MosaicML Acquisition, LakehouseIQ Launch, Data + AI Summit Show Gen AI Savvy

Is the Company Poised to Provide AI Leadership to Enterprises?
Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group examines Databricks’ recent generative AI announcements. The piece explores how through a series of strategic moves and through its storytelling at their annual Data + AI Summit, data management and development platform player Databricks is proving to be very Gen AI-savvy and the company has the potential to assume a leadership position in the Gen AI ecosystem, helping enterprises adopt Gen AI technology, applications, and use cases.
ServiceNow, Cognizant Team to Push AI Innovation
Mark Beccue

ServiceNow, Cognizant Team to Push AI Innovation

Mark Beccue, Research Director at The Futurum Group examines ServiceNow and Cognizant’s new partnership to push AI innovation. The piece explores how the partnership is another sign of a larger collaboration trend in AI and the impact and drivers the partnership will represent for Cognizant and ServiceNow.
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