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Baseline OpenAI End-to-End Chat Reference Architecture
Microsoft published the baseline OpenAI end-to-end chat reference architecture. This baseline contains information about components, flows and security. There are also details about performance, monitoring and deployment guidance. Microsoft also prepared the reference implementation to deploy and run the solution.
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State of FinOps 2024: Reducing Waste and Embracing AI
In the 2024 State of FinOps survey, Engineering Enablement has been replaced by a focus on cost and waste reduction. This shows maturity of FinOps as the persona getting the most value from FinOps remains the engineer. The confluence of AI and FinOps observability aims to optimise cloud spend visibility and improve insights into early AI experimentation, as well as sustainability goals.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 22 RC2, Multiple Releases in the Spring Ecosystem, Payara Platform
This week's Java roundup for February 19th, 2024, features news highlighting: JDK 22 in release candidate 2, the February 2024 edition of the Payara Platform, numerous milestone and point releases in the Spring ecosystem, multiple releases of Apache Tomcat and Log4j and Gradle 8.7-RC1.
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Amazon Q Data Integration in AWS Glue Simplifies Data Transformation on AWS
Recently, AWS announced the preview of a new feature for AWS Glue, enabling customers to use natural language for authoring and troubleshooting data integration jobs. With Amazon Q data integration in AWS Glue, developers can provide a description of their data integration workload, and the service will generate an ETL script.
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Google Introduces Firestore Multiple Databases
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of Firestore Multiple Databases. The new feature is designed to isolate customer data and facilitate the management of microservices, as well as development, test, and staging environments.
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Google Renames Bard to Gemini
Google announced that their Bard chatbot will now be called Gemini. The company also announced the launch of Gemini Advanced, the largest version of their Gemini language model, along with two new mobile apps for interacting with the model.
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Java News Roundup: New JEP Candidates, Milestone Releases for Spring Projects and Micrometer
This week's Java roundup for February 12th, 2024, features news highlighting: new JEP candidates, JEP 465 and JEP 466, milestone and point releases of Spring Framework, Spring Data, Micrometer and Project Reactor, Hibernate Search 7.1.0-RC1 and Infinispan 15.0.0.Dev01.
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OpenAI is Adding Memory Capabilities to ChatGPT to Improve Conversations
By letting ChatGPT remember conversations, OpenAI hopes to reduce the need for users to provide repetitive context information and make future chats more helpful. Users will be able to ask what to remember explicitly, what to forget, or turn off the feature entirely.
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Google Announces Multi-Modal Gemini 1.5 with Million Token Context Length
One week after announcing Gemini 1.0 Ultra, Google announced additional details about its next generation model, Gemini 1.5. The new iteration comes with an expansion of its context window and the adoption of a "Mixture of Experts" (MoE) architecture, promising to make the AI both faster and more efficient. The new model also includes expanded multimodal capabilities.
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NVIDIA Unveils Chat with RTX, a Locally Run AI Chatbot
NVIDIA has introduced Chat with RTX, allowing users to build their own personalized chatbot experience. Unlike many cloud-based solutions, Chat with RTX operates entirely on a local Windows PC or workstation, offering enhanced data privacy and control.
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OpenAI Launches AI Text-to-Video Generator Sora
Sora is OpenAI's new generative AI model to create videos from textual prompts. Currently in preview, the new model is able to create photorealistic videos up to 60 seconds long leveraging its ability to understand how things exist in the real world and combining multiple shots together without character or style disruption.
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MIT Researchers Use Explainable AI Model to Discover New Antibiotics
Researchers from MIT's Collins lab used an explainable deep-learning model to discover chemical compounds which could fight the MRSA bacteria. The model uses graph algorithms to identify chemical compounds which are likely to have antibiotic properties. Additional models predict whether or not the chemicals would be harmful to humans.
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Microsoft Copilot Studio Enables AI-Driven Conversational Interfaces for Business Applications
Microsoft recently announced the low-code tool Microsoft Copilot Studio at Ignite 2023. Copilot Studio users can both build standalone copilots and customize Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 — thus using AI-driven conversational capabilities for ad-hoc enterprise use cases.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 22 RC1, JBoss EAP 8.0, GlassFish 8.0-M2, LangChain4j 0.27
This week's Java roundup for February 5th, 2024, features news highlighting: the first release candidate of JDK 22, JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.0, IBM Semeru Runtimes first quarter 2024 updates, LangChain4j 0.27.0, and multiple point releases for Micronaut, Helidon and Eclipse Vert.x.
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Microsoft Shares Lessons Learned on Building AI Copilots
Researchers at Microsoft and GitHub Inc. have conducted an in-depth study into the challenges, opportunities, and needs associated with building AI-powered product copilots. The research involved interviews with 26 professional software engineers from various companies who are responsible for developing these advanced tools.