What's in Tech : Wk of September 14th

In this week’s “What’s in Tech” newsletter, we have covered the latest developments in the AI space. Highlights include a slew of launches by Oracle – from AI supercomputer to genAI agents, the launch of Apple Intelligence and new foundational models by startups like Mistral, Hume.ai and Sarvam AI. Other major news includes AI feature launches by ServiceNow, Salesforce, and Zoho.

?OpenAI Launches o1: Series of AI Models with Reasoning Abilities

Codenamed Strawberry, the o1 series of ‘reasoning’ foundational models that can reportedly answer more complex reasoning questions faster than humans. They are trained using a completely new optimization algorithm and a specifically tailored new training dataset.

Apple Launches ‘Apple Intelligence’ Suite with Heavy Focus on Privacy

Apple has announced its AI suite with increased privacy features such as on-device processing, private cloud compute, and availability of source-code to independent experts for review.

Oracle and Amazon Web Services Announce Strategic Partnership

The Oracle Database @ AWS will provide customers with a unified experience between Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and AWS, offering simplified database administration, billing, and unified customer support.

Oracle NetSuite Weaves New AI Capabilities Across its Product Line

The updates include AI features to improve efficiency, risk management and goal achievement, a digital assistant in SuiteAnalytics, and enhanced GenAI capabilities for content generation and integration.

Oracle Unveils OCI Supercluster with 130,000+ NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs

The Supercluster is the world’s first zettascale supercomputer and delivers maximum scale of more than three times as many GPUs as the Frontier supercomputer and more than six times that of other hyperscalers.

Oracle Announces 50 Role-based GenAI Agents

The agents will execute frequent, repetitive tasks and allow employees and managers to focus their time on more strategic tasks and initiatives, enabling higher of productivity across finance, supply chain, HR, sales, marketing, and services.

ServiceNow ‘Xanadu’ Brings AI Agents to Now Platform

These AI agents will use advanced reasoning, supported by cross-enterprise data from the Now Platform, to provide “deep contextual comprehension,” reducing mean-time-to resolution.

Mistral’s New Multimodal AI can Analyze Images Without Any Limits

The French AI startup taking on the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic released Pixtral 12B, its first ever multimodal model with both language and vision processing capabilities baked in.

Salesforce Unveils Agentforce to Help Create Autonomous AI Bots

The CRM giant’s new low-code suite enables enterprises to build AI agents that can reason for themselves when completing sales, service, marketing, and commerce tasks.

Cohere and NRI Collaborate to Launch New Financial AI Platform

The new platform is designed to help global financial institutions increase productivity and streamline their operations with the power of Cohere’s highly secure enterprise-grade AI technology.

Hume AI Launches Voice-to-Voice Model EVI 2 for Human-Like Conversations

EVI 2 can engage in rapid, fluent conversations with users, interpreting tone and adapting its responses accordingly. The model supports a variety of personalities, accents, and speaking styles and includes multilingual capabilities.

Zoho Analytics Launches with Self-Service BI and OpenAI Integration

The platform now offers enhanced data management, automated insights, custom machine learning, and seamless OpenAI integration, enabling businesses to make data-driven decisions.

Sarvam AI Launches Mayura to Improve English-to-Indic Language Translation

The model focuses on real-world language patterns such as code-mixing and colloquial expressions, aiming to deliver translations that are more relatable and accurate for Indian multilingual speakers.

Rabbitt.ai Launches No-Code RAG Solution

ChanceRAG allows users to upload PDF documents and connect their LLMs to these documents through a vector database. The product introduces an Advanced Fusion Retrieval technique, which blends semantic understanding with keyword matching for enhanced performance.

Centific Premier AI Hackathon

Our Premier Hackathon has officially begun! Over the next two weeks, we’ll be sharing exciting updates, insights, and standout moments as candidates compete to innovate and create game-changing solutions.

AI Innovation Keynote & Mixer with Sid Dixit xCTO of Maxar

Centific’s Director of Business Development Ken Morimoto along with co-host Greg Coquillo from our partner Amazon spoke to tech visionary Sid Dixit about his extensive experience in product innovation and strategy, and the future of AI.

From Multimodal Data to GenAI Strategic Insights, hosted by TD Synnex

Centific’s Head of AI & GenAI Solutions, Wayne Akoka, was part of an exciting panel with partners Lenovo and Nvidia, where he discussed how we translate existing multimodal data streams into business-impacting models with unprecedented speed and positive ROI.

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Regards

Dinesh Chandrasekar

CSO & Co-founder , Centific

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