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Spring Boot 3.2 Delivers Support for Virtual Threads and Modern RestClient and JdbcClient
The Spring Boot team released Spring Boot 3.2 in November 2023. This latest release is packed with features, the most noteworthy of which is the support for Virtual Threads and Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC). Other features include SSL Bundle reloading, Rest Client and JDBC Client interface support, observability improvements, and many others.
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Meta and IBM Lead Formation of AI Alliance to Drive Open-Source Innovation
A new consortium, led by Meta and IBM, has been formed to support open-source AI. The AI Alliance comprises numerous organizations from various sectors, including software, hardware, nonprofit, public, and academic, with the goal of collaboratively developing tools and programs to facilitate open development.
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Microsoft's Orca 2 LLM Outperforms Models That Are 10x Larger
Microsoft Research released its Orca 2 LLM, a fine-tuned version of Llama 2 that performs as well as or better than models that contain 10x the number of parameters. Orca 2 uses a synthetic training dataset and a new technique called Prompt Erasure to achieve this performance.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 22 in Rampdown, JDK 23 Expert Group, Spring Cloud 2023.0, TornadoVM 1.0
This week's Java roundup for December 4th, 2023, features news highlighting: JDK 22 having moved to Rampdown Phase One; formation of the JDK 23 expert group; JEP 464, Scope Values (Second Preview) targeted for JDK 22; Spring Cloud 2023.0.0; TornadoVM 1.0.0; and JHipster Lite 1.0.0.
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Apache Pinot 1.0 Provides a Realtime Distributed OLAP Datastore
Apache Pinot is an open source column-oriented distributed data store written in Java. Pinot is designed to use Online Analytical processing (OLAP) in order to answer multi-dimensional analytical (MDA) queries with low latency.
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Google Launches New Multi-Modal Gemini AI Model
On December 6, Alphabet released the first phase of its next-generation AI model, Gemini. Gemini was overseen and driven by its CEO, Sundar Pichai and Google DeepMind. Gemini is the first model to outperform human experts on MMLU (Massive Multitask Language Understanding), one of the most popular methods to test the performance of language models.
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Microsoft Integrates Copilot with Azure Quantum Elements for Advancing Scientific Research
At the recent Ignite conference, Microsoft demonstrated the advantages of combining AI and Azure Quantum Elements, a suite of services and tools for quantum chemistry and materials science. With the integration of Copilot, the new solution allows researchers to explore more materials, speed up chemistry simulations, and experiment with existing quantum hardware.
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Amazon Unveils Titan AI Image Generator
Amazon unveiled Titan Image Generator, currently in preview for AWS customers on Bedrock, Amazon's AI development platform. As a member of Amazon's Titan family of generative AI models, Titan Image Generator has the capability to generate new images based on a text description or customize existing images.
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OCI Database: Oracle Embraces PostgreSQL
Oracle has recently announced the general availability of OCI Database with PostgreSQL version 14.9. With the first managed PostgreSQL service available on Oracle Cloud, all cloud providers now offer a PostgreSQL-compatible managed option.
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Amazon S3 Introduces High-Performance Storage Class
During the recent re:Invent conference, AWS announced the general availability of S3 Express One Zone, a high-performance, single-AZ storage class that provides single-digit millisecond data access. Reducing request costs, the new storage class is designed for processing data in AI/ML training and financial modeling.
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Stability AI Open-Sources Video Generation Model Stable Video Diffusion
Stability AI released the code and model weights for Stable Video Diffusion (SVD), a video generation AI model. When given an input image as context, the model can generate 25 video frames at a resolution of 576x1024 pixels.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 22, Spring CVEs, Liberica JDK, JDKMon 21, Jupyter for Java, Gradle 8.5
This week's Java roundup for November 27th, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, Jakarta Data 1.0-M2, JNoSQL 1.0.3, LibericaJDK, Spring CVEs, Spring Shell 3.2.0-RC1, Quarkus 3.6, Open Liberty 23.0.12-beta, Helidon 4.0.1, Hibernate Reactive 2.2, Hibernate Search 7.1-A1, Grails 5.3.4, Groovy 5.0.0-A3, Camel Quarkus 3.6, Maven 3.9.6, JDKMon 21, PrimeFaces 12.0.7, Jupyter for Java and Gradle 8.5.
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Recap of AWS re:Invent 2023: Amazon Q, Frugal Architectures, Database Upgrades
The 12th edition of re:Invent has just ended in Las Vegas. As expected, artificial intelligence was a key topic of the conference, with Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Q, a new type of generative AI-powered assistant, the main focus of Adam Selipsky’s keynote.
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ClickHouse Keeper: Efficient Apache ZooKeeper Alternative Created with C++ and Raft
ClickHouse project team created an in-house replacement for Apache Zookeeper as it needed a more efficient implementation that would also address some of Zookeeper's shortcomings. Now, ClickHouse Keeper is an essential part of the ClickHouse project and a cornerstone of this open-source analytical database, but can also be used independently for many distributed coordination use cases.
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AWS Announces Amazon Q, a New Generative AI–Powered Assistant
AWS has introduced Amazon Q, a new generative AI-powered assistant designed for professional applications. This assistant is configurable to align with your company's requirements, facilitating conversations, issue resolution, content generation, and action-taking through the utilization of information present in your code, enterprise systems, and data repositories.