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Intellyx BrainCandy -- January 14, 2025 | |
Kicking off 2025 with a few fresh vendor briefs from Bria, Cobalt Iron, Deepchecks, Distributional, NEO, Socket, SWEAR and Vultr. Want to appear in an upcoming #BrainCandy brief with Intellyx B.V., or invite us to your upcoming (virtual) event? Email us at pr@intellyx.com.
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Bria’s AI foundational models and development services generate context-sensitive visuals trained exclusively on licensed resource libraries and privately branded images and video assets.
Artists, content copyright holders, public figures and corporate brands can maintain control of their imagery, while tracing image generation back to attributed sources, so image licensees remain ‘in the clear’ for authorized usage—unlike many of today’s Internet-scraped image generators ... [Read more] | |
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Cobalt Iron’s Compass backup management system is delivered as a service, either as an appliance in the data center or as a virtual appliance in the cloud.
In either case, Cobalt Iron manages the Compass service as a secure, turnkey solution. They provide a single version of the software globally to all customers and update the software quarterly. They charge customers based on their consumption of the service … [Read more] | |
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Generative AI responses can include hallucinations, incorrect answers, bias, and potentially harmful content.
Deepchecks’ testing framework continuously monitors and scores LLM responses to ensure you are getting the results you are looking for, avoiding such errors.
Without such a testing framework, validating LLM responses can be a trial and error situation ... [Read more] | |
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Distributional designed an unconventional testing platform specifically tuned for measuring confidence levels and predicting the potential non-deterministic risks of embedding AI-based features into applications.
While we’ll always need traditional software test coverage for structural and functional bugs, and observability tools to find failures and performance issues in production, conventional tooling fails to recognize the unpredictable results and emergent behaviors introduced by LLMs and AI inference models, which are often stacked ... [Read more] | |
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Many gen AI tools are available to generate code and help developers create traditional applications. But fewer tools are available to help developers actually create ML/AI applications.
NEO provides an automated ML/AI application development platform. Developers input he data set they want to work with (financial fraud detection for example) and run it through five steps of refinement to improve data accuracy … [Read More] | |
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It’s all about speed — about catching and fixing vulnerabilities and malicious exploits before they can cause damage.
Socket has developed a faster way to identify vulnerabilities and risks in source code and open source libraries, including imported packages.
Socket proactively scans open source repositories to detect vulnerabilities and malicious code, and does not depend on whether vulnerabilities are listed in the National Vulnerability Database. This helps them more quickly identify new risks and vulnerabilities ... [Read more] | |
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SWEAR captures and stores digital media and associated metadata on a blockchain ledger to guard against media manipulation for deepfakes or disinformation.
Manipulating digital media has become easy enough for anyone to achieve, resulting in an environment in which it’s hard to easily determine whether video, audio, or photo is fake or authentic.
WIth gen AI available to everyone, fabricating content becomes easier, and faster ... [Read more] | |
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Vultr has rather quietly built an alternative global hyperscaler geared toward the needs of developers seeking to compose their own cloud stacks and optimize their cloud cost-to-performance ratios, by efficiently splitting its own infrastructure fleet of GPUs/CPUs and storage volumes into performance tiers based on the workload and application use case.
So where an AI development project with an important inference workload may want to reserve the latest GPUs and high-performing SSD storage for responsiveness, a platform engineering team could roll their own cloud atop bare metal, and a startup may even grab bargain-priced or free-tier commodity CPUs for their demo workloads ... [Read more] | |
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Why MWC Barcelona?It’s where big tech, global governments, disruptive startups and visionary investors converge, connect and create what’s next. The world’s largest and most influential connectivity eventFrom founders to presidents, connect with everyone from everywhere. And be part of the year’s most important debates, business decisions and tech developments. Jason Bloomberg will be attending the entire conference and meeting with select vendors. To set up a meeting with him, email him at jason@intellyx.com ... [Register for the event here] | |
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