Salesforce introduces AI-driven features to their Marketing Cloud
The updates aim to help marketers engage customers in real-time.
Salesforce this week unveiled a series of AI-powered enhancements to the Marketing Cloud. The new features seek to improve personalized messaging and engaging with customers in real-time. Several of the updates will improve Interac...
Google releases TensorFlow Similarity to help AI find related items
Google announced TensorFlow Similarity, a Python package for training similarity models with the company’s TensorFlow machine learning framework. Similarity models train to spot similar/related items for application in tasks like identifying matching songs or similar products.
The search giant...
Coveo announced new features for its AI-powered digital experience platform
Coveo solutions is a unicorn startup that works with companies like Salesforce and Adobe to improve their websites with artificial intelligence. It introduced new features to help developers use its technology easily.
The features were announced by the company at its annual Relevance 360 Week Vi...
Google Cloud joins with C3 AI to drive AI adoption
The two companies will create an "Industry-First Alliance to Accelerate Enterprise AI".
This week C3 AI and Google Cloud announced a partnership to help organizations across multiple industries accelerate their application of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Under the agreement, both comp...
Zendesk acquires Portuguese startup Cleverly for customer service
Zendesk is on track to gain even more customer service capabilities and announced the acquisition of Cleverly, an early-stage artificial intelligence startup.
The financial terms of the deal are not publicly available at this time. Cleverly's exact funding figures are not public knowledge either...
Nvidia AI Enterprise generally available for mainstream servers
Nvidia announced the general availability of Nvidia AI Enterprise, a software suite that allows companies to virtualize workloads on mainstream servers running VMware vSphere. During the GA release, Nvidia also said it is partnering with Domino Data Lab to integrate its MLOps platform on top of Nvi...
Gartner identifies what’s powering emerging technologies
The research firm says it comes down to three things: engineering trust, accelerating growth and sculpting change.
Research giant Gartner this week released its 2021 Gartner Hype Cycle For Emerging Technologies report. The report highlights the rise of nonfungible tokens or NFTs, sovereign cloud...
Databricks could be valued at $38 billion after a $1.5 billion funding round
Databricks is raising at least $1.5 billion in new funding round on a valuation of $38 billion, despite reports earlier that it was planning an IPO this year.
Morgan Stanely will lead the round, according to a Bloomberg report that cited three people familiar with the plan. The report also added...
Talkdesk is now worth more than $10 billion after a $230 million funding round
Talkdesk, a startup that makes software used by companies to operate contact centres efficiently, announced on Thursday that after a $230 million funding round, it has reached a valuation of more than $10 billion.
This new valuation is more than three times what the company was worth after the l...
Microsoft details a neural network with 135 billion parameters
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that its researchers have developed a neural network to improve Bing. According to the statement, the network has 135 billion parameters that will enhance search results for users.
This neural network is the largest 'universal' artificial intelligence that the co...
Qualtrics buys Clarabridge for $1.125B
The deal will help Qualtrics to combine survey feedback with sentiment analysis.
Qualtrics this week announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Clarabridge, the leader in omnichannel conversational analytics, in a stock transaction valued at $1.125 billion.
Clarabrid...
Amazon announces general availability of IoT SiteWise Edge
The new tool aims to help power industrial data projects.
Amazon Web Services this week announced the general availability of AWS IoT SiteWise Edge. This is a tool that helps industrial companies process sensor data from their equipment. It will help with such tasks as as detecting technical iss...