Author » Alex Woodie
Alex Woodie is the managing editor of Datanami
Memgraph Bolsters AI Development with GraphRAG Support
The best GenAI applications combine the freshest, most pertinent customer data with top language models, but getting that data into the model’s context window isn’t easy. That’s where the new GraphRAG capability an Read more…
Feeding the Virtuous Cycle of Discovery: HPC, Big Data, and AI Acceleration
GenAI hit the scene fast and furious when ChatGPT was released on November 30, 2022. The quest for bigger and better models has changed the hardware, data center, and power landscape and foundational models are still u Read more…
Three Data Challenges Leaders Need To Overcome to Successfully Implement AI
Advancement in enterprise AI’s early years has largely been defined by experimentation, with businesses testing various models and seeing rapid improvements. However, as the top LLMs’ capabilities converge, AI agents Read more…
Data Security and Access Obstacles Grow, But There Is Hope, Immuta Finds
Privacy and compliance concerns are hurting organizations’ ability to provide timely access to data for their internal users, putting initiatives at risk. That’s the topline conclusion from Immuta and its 2025 State Read more…
Aerospike Delivers Full Support for ACID Transactions
Aerospike has always been a fast database, capable of reading and writing huge amounts of data with very tight latencies. With today’s launch of Aerospike version 8, the NoSQL database company has completed its journey Read more…
AI Agent Claims 80% Reduction in Time to Complete Data Tasks
A new AI agent developed by West Monroe can reduce the time it takes to complete manual data tasks, such as conversion and migration, by up to 80%, the company claims. Intellio Hopper, as the tool is called, is a gene Read more…
What Are Reasoning Models and Why You Should Care
The meteoric rise of DeepSeek R-1 has put the spotlight on an emerging type of AI model called a reasoning model. As generative AI applications move beyond conversational interfaces, reasoning models are likely to grow i Read more…
Ververica CEO Alex Walden Joins the Big Data Debrief
Ververica CEO Alex Walden knows a thing or two about streaming data. As the head of the leading commercial outfit behind Apache Flink, Walden has a front-row seat to witness the impact that stream data processing can hav Read more…
LOTUS Promises Fast Semantic Processing on LLMs
Researchers at Stanford University and UC Berkeley recently announced the version 1.0 release of LOTUS, an open source query engine designed to make LLM-powered data processing fast, easy, and declarative. The project’ Read more…
Watch for New BigDATAwire Column: AI Today and Tomorrow
In response to our readers’ many questions about AI, showing a mix of excitement and concern, we will soon debut a series of monthly articles on the status of AI in the global HPC community and the path toward AGI, art Read more…
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