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Research Notes

Research Note: IBM Q2 2024 Earnings

IBM reported a robust second quarter, surpassing expectations across key financial metrics. The company continues to capitalize on its hybrid cloud and AI strategy, driving solid performance in software and infrastructure. However, consulting services experienced slower growth due to macroeconomic challenges.

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Research Note: Meta Llama 3.1

Meta recently released its new Llama 3.1 large language model, setting a new benchmark for open-source models. This latest iteration of the Llama series enhances AI capabilities while underscoring Meta’s continuing commitment to democratizing advanced technology. Along with the updated model, Meta also released a new suite of ethical AI tools.

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Research Note: NVIDIA AI Factory & NIM Inference Microservices

NVIDIA announced its new NVIDIA AI Foundry, a service designed to supercharge generative AI capabilities for enterprises using Meta’s just-released Llama 3.1 models, along with its new NIM Inference microservices.

The new offerings significantly advance the ability to customize and deploy AI models for domain-specific applications.

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Research Note: NTT Data’s New AI Edge Platform

NTT Data unveiled its new Edge AI platform, which aims to accelerate IT/OT convergence by bringing AI processing to the edge. The fully managed solution enables real-time decisions, enhances operational efficiencies, and deploys secure AI applications across various industries, driving the adoption of advanced Industry 4.0 technologies.

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Research Reports

Research Brief: Oracle Exadata on Exascale Infrastructure

Oracle announced the general availability of the Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure, offering extreme performance, reliability, availability, and security for Oracle Database workloads. This new infrastructure is now available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), catering to any workload size for all Oracle Database customers.

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Research Brief: Oracle HeatWave GenAI

Oracle HeatWave GenAI is now generally available. The release features the industry’s first in-database large language models (LLMs), automated vector store, scale-out vector processing, and natural language conversations informed by unstructured content.

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Research Brief: Dell AI Factory

At NVIDIA GTC earlier this year, Dell announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to deliver the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA that was heavily based on NVIDIA technology. At this year’s Dell Tech World, Dell went further, introducing its own Dell AI Factory, while also updating the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA.

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Research Brief: IBM & Palo Alto Networks Strategic Partnership

IBM and Palo Alto Networks recently entered into a groundbreaking partnership, driving a substantial shift in the cybersecurity landscape. The new collaboration leverages each company’s strengths to enhance AI-powered customer security outcomes, while also moving IBM’s QRadar offering to Palo Alto Networks.

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Research Report: Taming the AI-enabled Edge with HCI-based Architectures

Despite the tremendous business benefits of edge computing, it arrives with complex challenges, including managing geographically dispersed nodes, security risks, and integrating with existing IT infrastructure. These challenges can best be addressed with an architecture built around Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, which streamlines management and enhances performance.

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Research Report: Oracle Database Vector Search

Oracle introduced full support for vectors, including vector search, in its just-released Oracle Database 23ai. Known as AI Vector Search, this capability represents a significant advancement in how databases can store, index, and search data semantically.

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Blog

GPT-4o mini
Steve McDowell

Let OpenAI GPT-4o Mini Introduce Itself

We usually write our own content, using LLMs to help refine our research, but in honor of OpenAI releasing its new GPT-4o Mini language model just a day after Meta released its Llama 3.1, and on the same day Mistral releases its new Mistral Large 2, we’ll let GPT 4o Mini tell you about itself.

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SAP Q2 24 Earnings
Steve McDowell

Quick Take: SAP’s Strong Q2 Earnings

SAP SE delivered robust earnings and guidance largely in-line with analyst estimates for the second quarter of 2024, highlighted by strong cloud momentum and significant growth in key financial metrics.

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AWS
Steve McDowell

Quick Take: AWS Launches Graviton 4

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched its Graviton4 processors, the fourth generation of its Arm-based custom processors. This new chip is touted as AWS’s most energy-efficient and high-performance solution for cloud workloads, marking a significant upgrade over its predecessor, Graviton3.

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