Category: AI

Service GPT, Sales GPT, and the Einstein GPT Trust Layer Features and Pricing Are Now Public
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group covers the general availability of Salesforce’s generative AI offerings within Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, and discusses the potential strategy enterprises may use to roll out these features based on Salesforce’s pricing model.
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.
The Futurum Group Senior Analyst Dave Raffo looks at Lenovo’s data management additions, including ransomware detection, and a new QLC all-flash storage system.
The Futurum Group’s Ron Westfall and Daniel Newman assess Nokia’s fiscal Q2 2023 as the company demonstrated its resilience by delivering fiscal Q2 2023 results including stable net sales in constant currency compared to 2022 amid macroeconomic uncertainties and customer inventory shifts. This includes the expectation that Nokia’s competitive prospects will benefit from more diversification in the enterprise and web scale spaces and the advancement of 5G SA network capabilities on a global basis.
The Six Five team discusses the news that Google Bard goes multilingual, supporting over 40 languages, having now launched in the EU.
The Six Five team discusses IBM's announcement that Watsonx.ai and .data are "going GA."
In our latest research brief, The Integration of AI and ML into Financial Management Systems Offers Substantial Benefits to Technology Companies, done in partnership with Workday, we analyze the current approach to modernization and the challenges facing enterprises in today’s climate of fast-paced disruption, economic turbulence and labor challenges.
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
Concrete Details on Safeguards Helps Drive More Confidence in Responsible Use of Gen AI
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group covers Automation Anywhere’s focus on AI data governance and control, and discusses the company’s approach to implementing generative AI guardrails to ensure safe and responsible use.
On this episode of The Six Five – On The Road, hosts Daniel Newman and Patrick Moorhead welcome Splunk’s Chief Cybersecurity Advisor Paul Kurtz, Live from .conf23 in Las Vegas to discuss how the c-suite should be thinking about AI today.
Patterson Dental Leverages SAP’s Field Service Management Solution to Increase Revenue and Optimize Scheduling
Keith Kirkpatrick, Research Director at The Futurum Group, covers SAP’s Field Service Management Solution, and discusses how incorporating real-time, external data into operational forecasts can improve customer experiences.
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?

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