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AI Chips in 2025: The end of “more GPUs is all you need”? Featuring InAccel CEO / Founder Chris Cachris
It’s early 2025, and we may already be witnessing a redefining moment for AI as we’ve come to know it in the last couple of years. Is the canon of “more GPUs is all you need” about to change?
Truth is, when we arranged a conversation on AI chips with Chris Kachris, neither the Stargate Project nor DeepSeek R1 had burst onto the AI scene. Even though we did not consciously anticipate these developments, we knew AI chips is a topic that deserves attention, and Kachris is an insider.
Join us as we explore how the AI chip market is shaped today and tomorrow.
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Check out the article published here for additional background and references: : https://linkeddataorchestration.com/2025/01/29/ai-chips-in-2025-the-end-of-more-gpus-is-all-you-need/
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You.com raises $50M to lead AI for Knowledge Workers. Featuring you.com Co-Founder Richard Socher
You.com showcases the state of AI today
The story of you.com is multi-faceted and telling in many ways. You.com was founded in 2020 by Richard Socher, one of the leading NLP (Natural Language Processing) researchers in the world, to offer a better search experience to users and compete with Google.
With a startup exit and a Chief Data Scientist stint at Salesforce, Socher got the experience, network and backing he needed to pursue his long-time ambition of taking on Google. That's something few people have tried, with moderate success.
Socher diagnosed early enough that the way to success is by carving a niche for you.com. You.com focuses on serving knowledge workers in "complex informational / action searches": elaborate queries, and queries that are really about accomplishing a task, respectively.
In 2022, in the pre-ChatGPT era, Socher set out a course for you.com based on AI, apps, privacy, and personalization. In 2024, you.com is staying the course, but a few things have changed. In the GenAI era the competition is growing, and borrowing pages from you.com’s book.
Language model providers such as OpenAI and Anthropic now offer services similar to you.com. Upstarts such as perplexity.ai have sprung up, and Google itself is embracing the AI approach to search.
You.com is making progress too. Since launching in November 2021, you.com has served 1 billion queries and has millions of active users, including from Fortune 500. The company's ARR has grown by 500% since January 2024.
Today, you.com announced a $50 million Series B funding round, as well as a new team plan called Multiplayer AI. We caught up with Socher, talked about the news, and took you.com for a spin.
Article published on Orchestrate all the Things: https://linkeddataorchestration.com/2024/09/04/you-com-raises-50m-to-lead-ai-for-knowledge-workers/
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Data Rules: From interoperability to commensurability. Featuring "Data Rules" author Jannis Kallinikos
"Data Rules" is a book about data, but not just about big data crunching. A book about the relationship of data with economic institutions and society, but also about the interplay with data technologies by which data are being generated and processed. A book that is critical, but not ideological.
This is how Jannis Kallinikos describes "Data Rules: Reinventing the Market Economy", a book co-authored by himself and Cristina Alaimo and recently published by The MIT Press.
Jannis Kallinikos is Full Professor of Organization Studies and the CISCO Chair in Digital Transformation and Data Driven Innovation at LUISS University, Rome.
This is where we met to talk about the key concepts in "Data Rules":
Understanding data generation and useHow data is breaking boundariesPlatforms and choiceThe illusion of objectivityAlgorithms, agency and surveillanceFrom market and design rules to data rules
Article published on Orchestrate all the Things: https://linkeddataorchestration.com/2024/07/01/data-rules-from-interoperability-to-commensurability/
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Universal semantic layer: Going meta on data, functionality, governance, and semantics. Featuring Cube Co-founder Artyom Keydunov
What is a universal semantic layer, and how is it different from a semantic layer? Are there actual semantics involved? Who uses that, how, and what for?
When Cube Co-founder Artyom Keydunov started hacking away a Slack chatbot back in 2017, he probably didn't have answers to those questions. All he wanted to do was find a way to access data using a text interface, and Slack seemed like a good place to do that.
Keydunov had plenty of time to experiment, validate, and develop Cube, as well as get insights along the way. We caught up and talked about all of the above, as well as Cube's latest features and open source core.
Article published on Orchestrate all the Things.
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Neo4j partners with Microsoft, unfolds strategy to power Generative AI applications with cloud platforms and Graph RAG. Featuring Neo4j CPO Sudhir Hasbe
From better together to full native integration, Neo4j is creating an ecosystem around all major cloud platforms to provide graph-powered features for Generative AI and beyond.
As Neo4j just announced its partneship with Microsoft, we met with Chief Product Officer Sudhir Hasbe to talk about:
What this partnership means for users and how it worksHow graph-powered generative AI aligns with cloud platform AI strategiesSimilarities and differences across themHow Neo4j's strategy is shaping up, and when Databricks and Snowflake integration are coming.
For additional analysis and a writeup of the conversation, you can read the article published on Orchestrate all the Things: https://linkeddataorchestration.com/2024/03/27/neo4j-partners-with-microsoft-unfolds-strategy-to-power-generative-ai-applications-with-cloud-platforms-and-graph-rag/
Connecting the dots with George Anadiotis: Analyst, Consultant, Engineer, Founder, Host, Researcher, and Writer.
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