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Heavy hitters are supporting Lord Mayor Michael Mainelli's Colloquy series on "#quantum #ai for good" - planet, profit, people! Chair: Bruce Beckloff of Bloc Ventures; Elham Kashefi of National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC); Julia Sutcliffe of Department for Business and Trade; Hans Henrik H. Knudsen of Kvantify; Steve Suarez® of HorizonX Consulting; Ala Alenazi of Kinnevik Investors, inventors, ambassadors, we have them all. Register here: https://lnkd.in/etqnmZ-A More info on the LM's Connect to Prosper/Colloquies (over 25 so far) here: https://lnkd.in/esjTJZSG

Had several enlightening discussions recently on cloud resiliency in the Financial Services Industry (FSI) as we prepare for the implementation of DORA. Financial services firms must showcase operational resilience to comply with regulations. Yellowdog.ai is pivotal in assisting organizations to meet the crucial requirements of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). By providing advanced visibility and control over cloud resources, Yellowdog.ai ensures compliance with DORA's emphasis on risk management, incident response, and ICT systems' continuity. The platform offers real-time monitoring, predictive analytics, and workload optimization to enhance operational resilience and facilitate quick recovery from disruptions. Through automated resource allocation and downtime reduction, Yellowdog.ai enables continuous operations, in line with DORA's goal of upholding critical services in challenging circumstances. https://lnkd.in/eYNS7_wv #operationalresilience #dora #technologyresilience #financialservices

Following on from a previous post on the importance of randomness, Jon Maliepaard dives deeper into the cost-effective QRNG solutions being pioneered at Crypta Labs. #QRNG

With the recent publication of post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) algorithms by NIST, the race is on to commence adoption. But mitigating Shor’s algorithm alone will not guarantee quantum resilience - PQC algorithms, just like those in use today, are reliant on a robust source of entropy that delivers true randomness. A new blog at Crypta Labs discusses the importance of randomness and the crucial role quantum random number generators (QRNGs) will play in achieving it. https://lnkd.in/eP5283yD

AI revolution accelerates, Mag 7 continues astronomical capex spending on LLM build up, and yet many of us working professionals are seeking AI solutions addressing real-world challenges on the factory floor. I am sharing a small, yet very tangible and powerful use case where domain specific SVM delivers scalable solution to reduce manual tasks, increase defect detection accuracy and consistency, reduce inspection cycle time, and generate significant cost reduction. You can learn more about Mindtrace's Brain-Sense™ Platform and our welding brains in our latest case study below!

How realistic is the road to high-performance and robust satellite compute? David Pollington investigates developments in the space industry: https://lnkd.in/eX3T2n-n

Really exciting news from Crypta Labs, announcing their collaboration with Qrng Solutions Ltd to offer quantum random numbers generated on demand!

Whilst the media have been captivated by the race to ever bigger and more powerful foundational models, future revenues in GenAI will be pinned on making these models useful to Enterprise, and accessible to users on their own devices. I wrote a piece on fine-tuning LLMs for Enterprise last year... since then the pace of innovation has been astonishing, but challenges remain in improving the knowledge, understanding, reasoning and scaling of LLMs to truly realise their potential #LLMs #GenAI #reasoning #SLMs #edgeAI

Generative AI is facing some big challenges which could inhibit widespread adoption of LLMs such as nuance, reasoning and compute power. David Pollington delves into some of these challenges and how they're being addressed through technology: https://lnkd.in/gCbiQJCt

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