Everything I write about artificial intelligence lands here. Less of the demo-day theater, more of what sits underneath it: the compute, the real economics, and the distance between what gets announced and what actually ships.
Databricks has raised a 250 million dollar Series E led by Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue Management, and, most tellingly, Microsoft. The dollar figure is big,…
The two fiercest rivals in the Hadoop world, Cloudera and Hortonworks, have announced they are merging. For anyone who followed the big-data scene in…
Tempus Labs became Chicago's standout unicorn in 2018, opening a historic run. How Eric Lefkofsky's precision-medicine company built on the Groupon and Grubhub era.
Databricks grew from a seven-person startup into a serious cloud company, and its 140 million Series D, led by Andreessen Horowitz, reflects that. The…
The same year the Hadoop old guard is merging in retreat, Snowflake is doing the opposite: raising a 450 million dollar round that values…
The Villani Report on AI in 2018 provides a strategic framework that guides French public investment and policy in artificial intelligence.
Following the Villani Report, France significantly increases public funding for AI research, infrastructure, and talent development between 2018 and 2022.
Qualcomm spent its summit in Maui this week talking less about how fast the Snapdragon 845 is and more about what it can think…
Much of the data story so far has been about data at rest, information that has already been collected and is sitting in a…
Eight researchers at Google have published a paper with a slightly cheeky title: “Attention Is All You Need.” It introduces a new kind of…
Station F opens in 2017 as the world’s largest startup campus and quickly becomes an important concentration point for AI-focused companies in Paris.
Snowflake has stopped being a promising stealth startup and become one of the fastest-growing software companies in the world. It has raised a large…
Not every important shift in the data world arrives as a billion-dollar funding round or a splashy product launch. Some arrive as a quiet…
Paris Region robotics and physical AI work, supported by INRIA and clusters, moves from research toward practical applications in mobility and industry.
Google has just done something that could help set the trajectory of the AI era: it has taken TensorFlow, the internal software it uses…
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