Author: Nick Patience

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank Join Forces to Build Massive Data Center Network as a Key Issue for US National Security
Nick Patience, AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group examines President Trump's ambitious $500B Stargate initiative that aims to revolutionize US AI infrastructure while countering China's rapid advances in AI development.
CoreWeave’s Newly Opened Crawley and London Docklands Facilities, Featuring NVIDIA H200 GPUs, Bolster Its AI Hyperscaling Efforts in Alignment With the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan
Nick Patience, VP and AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, explores CoreWeave's launch of UK-based data centers featuring NVIDIA H200 GPUs, driving AI innovation and supporting the UK’s AI Opportunities Action Plan.
Nick Patience, VP and Practice Lead for AI at The Futurum Group, provides key predictions for 2025, highlighting the dominance of agentic AI, major industry shake-ups including IPOs and acquisitions, and the shift toward multi-modal AI applications.
Google Upgrades Its AI With New TPUs, Enhanced Gemini Model & Agentic AI
Nick Patience and Keith Kirkpatrick at The Futurum Group share their insights into Google’s late-2024 AI announcements, and discuss what the company needs to do to drive and retain customer interest in its AI offerings.
With Businesses Stretched and Customer Expectations as High as They’ve Ever Been, Agentforce Aims to Automate Repetitive Tasks
Nick Patience, AI Practice Lead and Tiffani Bova, Chief Strategy and Research Officer at The Futurum Group share their insights on Salesforce new Agentforce 2.0 digital labour platform and how it might create an unlimited pool of digital labor for companies.
Nick Patience, Vice President & AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, analyzes AWS's major AI announcements at re:Invent 2024, including new Nova foundation models, Trainium2 chip availability, and significant enhancements to SageMaker and Bedrock services.
In this research brief, AI and Data Infrastructure: A Modern Approach, completed in partnership with Qlik, Futurum explores the critical importance of data quality and the transformative benefits of open architectures in AI development, while also examining Qlik's solutions for modern AI infrastructure.
Nick Patience, VP & AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group shares his insights on Generative AI and foundation model companies in particular. AI foundation models have evolved rapidly, with OpenAI leading at a $157bn valuation. While new players attract major funding, some firms pivot to applications. Success increasingly requires both strong models and practical use cases.
Nick Patience, AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group shares his insights on GenAIOps, what it is and why it matters. Whether this is a standalone market, or inevitably part of something bigger isn’t clear yet as the market is still in its early evolution stages. But regardless of the structure of the market, the problem GenAIOps addresses is a very real and complex one for organizations as we move toward a multi-model and multi-modal Gen AI world.
Launching a New Set of Granite AI Models, IBM Looks to Make Price, Performance, and Safety Its Key Differentiators
Nick Patience, AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on IBM’s announcement of the Granite 3.0 family of models.
Nick Patience, VP and AI Practice Lead at The Futurum Group shares insights on Google Cloud's strategy in the AI market. The article explores the key announcements and themes from the Google Cloud Summit London, focusing on the company's emphasis on generative AI, enterprise solutions, and data management capabilities.
MongoDB Is Positioning Itself as the AI-Era Database, Emphasizing Developer Experience, Application Modernization, and a Robust Partner Ecosystem
Nick Patience and Steven Dickens share their insights on how MongoDB 8.0 is driving application modernization through AI, improved performance, and partnerships. Learn how enterprises are embracing this shift to modernize legacy systems.

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