Category: AI Platforms

Intel’s COMPUTEX Keynote Reframes an Iconic Company as a Silicon-to-Systems AI Lab
June 4, 2026

Intel’s COMPUTEX Keynote Reframes an Iconic Company as a Silicon-to-Systems AI Lab

Brendan Burke, Research Director at Futurum, examines the Intel agentic AI pivot at COMPUTEX 2026, where Xeon 6+ on 18A, Rackscale Blueprints, and a Perplexity hybrid demo reframe the CPU...
Databricks Genie and Partners Target Enterprise AI's Real Bottleneck: Cross-Functional Intelligence
June 4, 2026

Databricks Genie and Partners Target Enterprise AI’s Real Bottleneck: Cross-Functional Intelligence

Databricks Genie launches production-grade conversational AI to address enterprises' top challenge: AI reliability. Governed, context-aware insights help overcome critical adoption barriers across business functions....
Microsoft Build 2026 - The Platform, Integration Plane, and Developer Surface
June 4, 2026

Microsoft Build 2026 – The Platform, Integration Plane, and Developer Surface

Futurum Analysts Ashley, Kirkpatrick, Patience, and Shimmin analyze Microsoft Build 2026 across models, agents, data intelligence, governance, and silicon as Microsoft positions itself as the platform, the integration plane, and...
Agentic AI
June 3, 2026

Salesforce Bets on Agentic Marketing: Will Unified AI Agents Redefine Martech ROI?

Keith Kirkpatrick, Vice President & Research Director, Enterprise Software & Di at Futurum, analyzes how Salesforce's agentic AI marketing platform leverages collaborative agents for campaign creation, lead qualification, and customer...
Snowflake Summit 2026: Four Infrastructure Bets That Determine Whether the Agentic Enterprise Delivers
June 3, 2026

Snowflake Summit 2026: Four Infrastructure Bets That Determine Whether the Agentic Enterprise Delivers

Brad Shimmin, VP and Practice Lead at Futurum, shares insights on Snowflake's four infrastructure bets—Cortex Sense, Iceberg v3, Datastream, and Adaptive Compute—that will determine the success of the agentic enterprise....
Dell Q1 FY 2027: AI Server Demand Drives Raised FY 2027 Outlook
June 3, 2026

Dell Q1 FY 2027: AI Server Demand Drives Raised FY 2027 Outlook

Futurum Research analyzes Dell’s Q1 FY 2027 earnings, focusing on AI server demand, backlog dynamics, and what supply constraints mean for enterprise infrastructure plans....
Will Anthropic’s Draft S-1 Ignite a New Phase in the AI Platform Race?
June 3, 2026

Will Anthropic’s Draft S-1 Ignite a New Phase in the AI Platform Race?

Anthropic's draft S-1 filing marks a pivotal moment for AI, with a $965 billion valuation and $30 billion revenue run rate that could redefine enterprise vendor evaluation in generative AI....
Is Liquid Clustering the End of Partitioning for Data Lakehouses?
June 3, 2026

Is Liquid Clustering the End of Partitioning for Data Lakehouses?

Databricks' Liquid Clustering challenges traditional data partitioning, promising superior speed, scalability, and efficiency—potentially reshaping how enterprises manage petabyte-scale analytics and AI workloads....
Can DataRobot and Chevron Prove Agentic AI Is Ready for Critical Edge Operations?
June 3, 2026

Can DataRobot and Chevron Prove Agentic AI Is Ready for Critical Edge Operations?

DataRobot and Chevron's collaboration demonstrates edge AI's potential to transform industrial operations through autonomous inspections and real-time assessments, marking a pivotal moment in enterprise AI adoption....
Can Anyscale on Azure Redefine Enterprise AI Control and Scale for Regulated Data?
June 3, 2026

Can Anyscale on Azure Redefine Enterprise AI Control and Scale for Regulated Data?

Anyscale's Azure preview enables enterprises to develop custom AI models with sovereign control, audit capabilities, and compliance alignment—shifting from API dependency to proprietary infrastructure....
Anthropic Files For IPO, Looking to Beat OpenAI to the Punch
June 2, 2026

Anthropic Files For IPO, Looking to Beat OpenAI to the Punch

Nick Patience, VP & Practice Lead at Futurum, examines Anthropic’s confidential IPO filing — what the financial data available so far tells us, and what public investors will need to...
Curing Agentic Hallucinations: DataHub’s Answer to the AI Context Gap
June 2, 2026

Curing Agentic Hallucinations: DataHub’s Answer to the AI Context Gap

Brad Shimmin breaks down the release of DataHub Cloud v1 and explores how its automated context platform cures AI analytics hallucinations by feeding agents pre-validated, expert-approved business logic....

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VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

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