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 is making a real gamble here: it goes all in on Amazon Web Services. The platform is becoming available as a first-party managed…
At CES 2015, 4K becomes the floor and curved TVs the gimmick, but the real story is the car: Nvidia Drive, Snapdragon 810, and…
Paris builds AI strength through research, startups, and corporate programs that compound through the mid-2010s and beyond.
France strengthens its AI position through sustained research output, startup activity, and corporate programs that align in the mid-2010s.
A year after taking Andreessen Horowitz’s money, Databricks finally has something to show. At the Spark Summit, the company unveils its first actual product,…
After two years of near-total silence, Snowflake has come out of stealth and revealed what its three Oracle-veteran founders have been quietly building. It…
Before the cloud warehouses, before Databricks and Snowflake are household names in enterprise IT, there is Hadoop, and there are two companies betting everything…
Every big company has an origin story that sounds inevitable later and is anything but at the time. Databricks starts here, when seven academics…
The launch of the French Tech initiative in 2013 provides national support that helps AI and tech startups gain visibility and access to resources.
France maintains strong AI and computer science research through INRIA and universities in the mid-2000s, laying groundwork for later commercial activity.
Amazon Web Services has launched Redshift, a cloud data warehouse, and in doing so quietly fired one of the opening shots of the modern…
Three data-warehouse experts who spent years at Oracle have walked away to build the thing they believe Oracle never will: a database designed from…
The same year Amazon launches Redshift and Snowflake is founded, Google makes its own data warehouse, BigQuery, generally available. Three of the most important…
SpaceX puts the Falcon 1 into orbit on its fourth attempt, becoming the first privately funded company to reach orbit with a liquid-fueled rocket.
INRIA delivers long-term computer science and AI research that seeds Paris tech ecosystem and physical systems development.
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