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At Black Box Intelligence™, we've been closely monitoring California since the minimum wage increase in April, and the findings may surprise you! Explore the trends in sales, traffic, check growth, and staffing, particularly in comparison to the rest of the nation. https://lnkd.in/gkf2mVUf

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Embracing the full capabilities of AI into your workflow has the ability to increase efficiency and enable the rapid scaling of both projects and headcount. #AI #highercommunity #talentacquisition

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Congratulations Sridhar, and Jensen, on your partnership to integrate NeMo into Cortex AI. This is a huge step to build custom AI apps. We have integrated #denodo platform with Snowflake #Arctic and #Cortex for building powerful #RAG applications, and are demoing this at our booth in the #datacloudsummit. As you know, relevant corporate #data is essential for #enterprise AI. To that effect, today, we proudly announced integrating NVIDIA NIM Interface Microservices with Denodo to accelerate and optimize #ai capabilities for enterprises. This integration will provide enterprise customers with faster, more secure, and fully scalable AI capabilities. https://lnkd.in/gqgwZ5Dh Looking forward to our partnership with Snowflake and NVIDIA to further the #ai innovation for our enterprise customers! #datavirtualization #logicaldatamanagement

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As the leader of @SUSE's global partner ecosystem, I often reflect on the core values shaping the open-source community we're proud to be a part of. Meritocracy is a principle that resonates deeply with me. In the open-source realm, meritocracy means valuing contributions based on impact rather than titles or tenure. This approach fosters a culture where the best ideas can come from anywhere, encouraging diverse perspectives and driving innovation. Learn more about how meritocracy applies to a global partner ecosystem here: [Link to the full article] #Partnerships #OpenSource #Meritocracy #Innovation #SUSE #GlobalEcosystem #Collaboration

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Thank you Databricks for hosting our folks at the Data+AI Summit. The team has been so excited to attend. The topics shared at the event reminded me of a Databricks article from 2021 that celebrated the progress of Arrow: “Apache Arrow has recently become the de-facto standard for columnar in-memory data analytics, and is already adopted by a plethora of open-source projects.” (Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gUEcsgRZ) Arrow recently crossed the 1 BILLION annual download mark. Voltron Data is the leading maintainer and contributor to the Arrow project, and numerous other open standards, and we are incredibly proud to see this. Arrow is actively used for building new integrations with #GPU acceleration that are driving forces for Machine Learning Pre-Processing and Analytics at scale, thanks to the amazing foundation of RAPIDS.ai. Our query engine, Theseus, is built with Arrow and RAPIDS and is a prime example of how powerful tools built with Open Standards are. Theseus can process 100TB queries in SECONDS. Check out the numbers in our benchmarking report: https://lnkd.in/gMKbxcrU

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Dealmakers think a lot about how AI = (growth or industry disruption) = M&A. But what about their own ways of working? I look forward to a robust discussion next week on how generative AI impacts the business of M&A. #wheredealsaremade

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🚀 Big News: Asymbl, Inc. is now a Salesforce Foundations Launch Partner! With this partnership, we are redefining what’s possible for talent solutions and staffing firms of all sizes. Asymbl ATS, now seamlessly integrated with Salesforce Foundations, accelerates our ability to deliver a fully assembled front office—spanning sales, marketing, recruiting, service, and commerce—powered by the full force of Data Cloud, Agentforce, and prebuilt connections to the back office. This ensures seamless operations across your entire business, from candidate engagement to payment and beyond. But there’s more: Salesforce Foundations introduces a completely reimagined user interface designed to simplify and enhance every interaction. What the new UI means for users: ✨Consistency across tools: Whether it’s sales, service, marketing, commerce, or now recruiting and talent operations, the experience feels cohesive and intuitive, reducing the learning curve and boosting productivity. ✨A streamlined experience: With built-in tools for real-time collaboration, data-driven decision-making, and AI-powered automation, users can get more done in less time. ✨Familiar yet innovative: The UI blends a unified design with deep functionality, making every new feature feel like a natural extension of the solution. This is a significant step forward in innovation and evolution that directly aligns with Asymbl’s philosophy of easily assembling your tech stack: each feature and update seamlessly is woven together, ensuring that every tool feels like a natural extension of your operations. What’s possible with Asymbl ATS + Salesforce Foundations: 📈 Activate your entire front office to drive revenue and speed time-to-placement. 🤝 Create impactful marketing campaigns, resolve service issues in real-time,, and make placements faster. 💡 Leverage the complete power of Agentforce for AI-driven automation, enabling smarter, faster decisions. 🔗 Streamline operations end-to-end with prebuilt connections to essential back office systems like billing and payment. Foundations represents a bold commitment to future-proofing the solution while maintaining its core values of simplicity, scalability, and trust. By uniting tools, data, and teams under a single, powerful architecture, Foundations empowers customers to innovate faster and achieve more. I’m thrilled to see how this will empower staffing and talent solutions firms to thrive. Let’s assemble the future of work together. 📽️ We will include the Salesforce announcement about Foundations in our comments, which provides a video that demonstrates the magic of Salesforce Foundations in action. #SalesforceFoundations #AsymblATS #RecruitmentInnovation #Customer360 #Agentforce https://lnkd.in/gM3ebAD9

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For those who missed the Snowflake Data Summit keynote; here’s my GeneAI summarization :-) 1) Sridhar the new Snowflake CEO is smart as a pup and amazing academic and career pedigree, but has very little charisma or public speaking skills. Hope he improves on the latter over time. 2) Jensen zoomed in for his Keynote because he is still in Taiwan for Compudex. Jensen has labeled Taiwan the heart of GenAI Compute, all of Nvidia (and AMD)’s major suppliers are in Taiwan. It’s amazing this little island the size of California holds the future to AI. 3) Snowflake and Nvidia announced their partnership. Basically it’s combining Snowflake LLM Datastore with Nvidia LLM training and inference/generate. This is revolutionary. Snowflake pioneered the separation of compute from storage in massive EDWs, and now the circle is completely with bringing Nvidia compute training and inference/generation close to storage, eliminating bandwidth cost, latency and data policy/privacy issues. And as someone with Information Retrieval background, I see GenAI has come full circle with RAG - it’s just Precision/Recall, attributes vectorization as “embedding”, K-Nearest Neighbor, User Search Intent, DAG, ML algorithms, etc all over again. Except this time with supercharged GPU SoC that is improving at 16x Moore’s Law. We live in exciting times.

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I'm excited to share that I have just completed the certification in Artificial Intelligence: Business Strategies and Applications at UC Berkeley Executive Education! This program has been extremely helpful, giving me the tools, insights, and skills to better serve my enterprise clients. Here's a glimpse of what I've learned: - How to help my clients accelerate AI adoption in their enterprises - How to organize and manage successful AI application and AI initiatives across the organization - Strategies to communicate effectively with technical teams and business leaders related to AI implementations - Tips to avoid common problems associated with implementing these emerging technologies If you're interested in understanding the AI landscape better and boosting your strategic skills, I highly recommend exploring these certifications and training. :) It's a great opportunity to stay ahead in this rapidly evolving field of AI Here are a few I highly recommend: - Artificial Intelligence: Business Strategies and Applications UC Berkeley Executive Education - Google: Google AI for Everyone - Generative AI for Business Leaders EdX

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Interesting notes from Intuit's recent webinar on LLMs. What evaluation processes do you deploy? at tasq.ai our approach is to integrate the AI models with diverse, global human guidance, to support #responsibleai faster and near real time.

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When engines compete, customers win. The biggest story in data this summer was that Iceberg established itself as the de facto standard for how customers store their data for decades to come. What comes next? Listen to Alex Woodie and I cover this and a wide range of other topics on his interview series here:

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What an amazing few days at #SnowflakeSummit2024. A huge thank you to all our UK customers and partners that travelled to San Francisco for the week with Snowflake. Also a massive thank you to our amazing Marketing team for putting on yet another tremendous event. It was amazing to see the new announcements and how Snowflake's architecture is revolutionising AI applications; Iceberg tables are now in GA, Polaris Catalog is now available to support open storage architectures and we are adding an Internal Marketplace along with more AI governance to Snowflake Horizon. These were just a few of the many announcements. With our best-in-class enterprise data foundation and its ability to unlock interoperability with open data and internal collaboration we have exciting times ahead as we unlock the power of the "AI Data Cloud". Finally, a huge thank you to all our Snowflakes who consistently drive customer awareness and the art of the possible. A consistent theme of the week was - "Don't let your imagination limit the endless possibilities that Snowflake's AI Data Cloud can deliver to your organisation". Adam Metherell Florence Storr Andy Westcott Michael Foster Benjamin Tucker Rebecca Sopp Jonathan Nicholson Tom Doyle Rob James Josh Foster-Timms Alex Lambert Caroline Otterheim Lydia Carter Louisa Kierath Alistair Jayne-Coupe Corey Cummins Maxime Fremy James Petter

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Come meet us at the Snowflake summit in SF next week and learn how we're applying specialized models (large, small, expert, etc.) to enterprise data giving your teams super data powers. #SnowflakeSummit #DataCloud #SanFrancisco #Networking #Data #BI #AI #GenAI #LLMs

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Open has become the state-of-the-art (for now), Meta have changed the game - yet again - with the release of the Llama3.1 suite of models. The acceleration in this industry is breathtaking. The headlines: * Llama 3.1 models are immediately available in Cortex today. ✅ * 405B packs a punch - out performing other leading flagship models across a variety of benchmarks. 📈 * 8b & 70b models have been updated too. The already capable models have seen significant jumps, particularly in math and coding, in just 3 months. 🚀 * Meta's 3.1 suite will be made available for serverless fine tuning. 🤯 * We've also released Snowflake Cortex Guard (GA) to safeguard LLM applications. 🛡

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Thanks, Snowflake for the recognition. Machine data and business data can live in one cloud database platform - Snowflake. With this unification, Observe will help you understand your observability in the business context better than anyone else.

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Fantastic to see our good friend Dash Desai walk through an example of how to build sophisticated apps in Snowflake with RelationalAI Our goal at RelationalAI has always been to power every decision with intelligence and enable users to do more with less effort. Thanks to our partnership with Snowflake and our deep integration with the AI Data Cloud, that has never been simpler. The best has yet to come, stay tuned! #RelationalAI #KnowledgeGraphs #Snowflake #AIDataCloud

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Nate Nichols has been researching, building and deploying AI systems for 15 years. He does a great job breaking down the basics to help you with an AI roadmap to get started in your organization. Watch Nate and reach out if you want to learn more!

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Most workers today know the value of rich data analytics in their jobs, yet 33% of them struggle to understand and generate insights from data. To help democratize access to data analytics, @Salesforce’s Einstein Copilot for @Tableau empowers users of any skill level with: ➡️ Query formulation ➡️ Intent detection ➡️ Code translation and validation ➡️ Execution and visualization Learn more:

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Matillion Democratizes GenAI with No-Code Cortex Components on Snowflake AI Data Cloud. The newly launched GenAI components enable powerful out-of-the-box use cases, including generating product descriptions, extracting key information from customer reviews, analyzing sentiment, summarizing lengthy reports, and translating content for global audiences. Matillion now supports all of the major Snowflake AI capabilities, in a no-code, easy-to-use platform providing a complete and powerful AI solution that integrates with existing data workflows

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