Honeywell said it will integrate Google Cloud's AI into Honeywell Forge, an Internet of things platform designed for industrial use cases.
Microsoft is adding 10 autonomous agents in Dynamics 365 and moving the ability to create them into public preview in Copilot Studio. With the move, Microsoft is adding on to its Copilot stack with agentic AI agents that can complete tasks autonomously.
IBM launched Granite 3.0 8B and 2B models under the Apache 2.0 license, new models designed for CPU-based deployments and edge computing and the next-generation of Watsonx code assistant.
On-premise enterprise AI workloads are being talked about more as technology giants are betting that enterprise demand will launch in 2025 due to data privacy, competitive advantage and budgetary concerns.
On Blackstone's third quarter earnings conference call, the company said its data center portfolio now has $70 billion in facilities and more than $100 billion in pipeline development.
Amazon is investing in X-Energy Reactor Company's $500 million venture round as it becomes clear that AI factories will be increasingly tethered to nuclear reactors.
Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said the company is committed to serving the public sector and government "in all of its domains" and said Google Public Sector is the only completely independent division to give it the leeway to serve customers.
Google Public Sector said Gemini in Google Distributed Cloud for secret and top-secret workloads will be available in early 2025 as the two-year-old unit announced key customer wins NIH Strides and CalHEERS as well as a Federal AI Solution Factory with Accenture. Google Cloud also won new authorizations for Air Force Cloud One to provide cloud services to the Department of the Airforce.
Databricks broadened its partnership with Amazon Web Services in a move that will put Databricks Mosaic AI on AWS for custom models. In addition, Databricks will use AWS' Trainium chips as its preferred infrastructure for model training.
IBM used Adobe Firefly over the last year to lower its content spend by 80% and reduced its ideation time from 15 days to 2 days in a marketing campaign executed in and around the Sphere in Las Vegas. Perhaps the bigger takeaway is that IBM's returns were largely driven by using Firefly at the front end of the creative process.
Artificial intelligence budgets will surge again in 2025, but good luck tracking expenditures with any precision as generative AI spending is lumped into other categories and driven by multiple departments.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise launched an AMD-powered system designed for complex AI model training. The HPE ProLiant Compute XD685 leverages 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI325X accelerators.
