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Solutions Review Executive Editor Tim King curated this list of notable artificial intelligence news for the week of February 7, 2025.
Keeping tabs on all the most relevant artificial intelligence news can be a time-consuming task. As a result, our editorial team aims to provide a summary of the top headlines from the last week in this space. Solutions Review editors will curate vendor product news, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital funding, talent acquisition, and other noteworthy artificial intelligence news items.
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Artificial Intelligence News for the Week of February 7, 2025
Alluxio Releases Enterprise AI 3.5
Version 3.5 showcases the platform’s capability to accelerate AI model training and streamline operations with features such as a new Cache Only Write Mode, advanced cache management, and enhanced Python SDK integrations. These updates empower organizations to train models faster, handle massive datasets more efficiently, and streamline the complexity of AI infrastructure operations.
Anthropic Recommends Not Using AI for Job Applications
Anthropic’s disdain for job seekers using AI to help build their applications isn’t uncommon. Companies and their managers have long been caught in an AI arms race that is upending the hiring process. Now both applicants and recruiters are experiencing tensions about how to use the tech.
BCG Says AI and Advanced Analytics Set to Bring Major Cost Reduction
Many are responding to policy shifts in the United States as economic and geopolitical uncertainty collides with the need for strategic investment. Nearly one-third of executives have already launched contingency plans to mitigate potential disruptions from expected tariff and regulatory changes. In the face of all of these factors, one-third of corporate leaders list cost management as their most critical priority in the year ahead.
Cognida.ai Raises $15 Million Series A Funding for Enterprise AI Adoption
The $15 million investment from Nexus Venture Partners, a globally recognized venture capital firm with a track record of backing transformative startups, reflects strong confidence in Cognida.ai’s vision and execution. The funding will accelerate Cognida.ai’s proven implementation model.
DataChat Launches No-Code GenAI Analytics Platform as Snowflake App
DataChat and Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, are working together to help joint customers inform business decisions and drive innovation by enabling faster speed to insights. In recent months, DataChat has released several significant product updates including expanded collaboration features.
Could US Congress Ban DeepSeek?
U.S. Reps. Darin LaHood, R-Ill., and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., are introducing the legislation on national security grounds, saying the company’s technology presents an espionage risk. He said DeepSeek’s generative AI program can acquire the data of U.S. users and store the information for unidentified use by Chinese authorities.
EY and Microsoft Extend Social Impact Collaboration to Democratize GenAI Skills
This free online program is part of an ongoing social impact collaboration focused on supporting young people and those furthest from opportunity to build the AI skills necessary to thrive in today’s AI economy.
Genpact Announced the Launch of Agentic Solutions
Accelerating the company’s move to Service-as-Agentic-Solutions, Genpact is introducing its own Agentic Solutions. These are trained with an industry-specific semantic layer that allows agents to learn, adapt, and make autonomous decisions based on real-world feedback.
GridGain Announces New GridGain for AI
GridGain for AI can simplify the path from AI experimentation to delivery and execution, so businesses can confidently accelerate their AI deployments knowing that GridGain will ensure the performance, scale, and access controls they need to reliably process their data.
Hugging Face Clones OpenAI’s Deep Research
The open-source clone is already racking up comparable benchmark results. After only a day’s work, Hugging Face’s Open Deep Research has reached 55.15 percent accuracy on the General AI Assistants (GAIA) benchmark, which tests an AI model’s ability to gather and synthesize information from multiple sources.
Lightning Unveils New AI Hub
Unlike traditional AI solutions that require weeks of integration, the AI Hub delivers fully operational, industry-specific AI instantly, without the complexity of building AI systems from scratch – to help enterprises move beyond the POC stage of AI.
Moveworks Unveils New Quick GPT
Quick GPT unlocks a variety of productivity use cases for every team across the organization, all inside the AI Assistant they already use today. For example, engineering teams can conduct comprehensive code reviews to accelerate the speed of software development, sales teams can quickly research target accounts and customer news for deeper insights, and HR teams can generate first drafts of job descriptions or internal communication for improved efficiency.
NVIDIA and Rafay Systems Publish New Reference Architecture
The reference architecture furnished in this document can also be leveraged by GPU Cloud providers that don’t meet the NCP designation requirements as set forth by NVIDIA, as well as by enterprises building out GPU Clouds for internal consumption.
OpenAI Introduces Deep Research
The ability to synthesize knowledge is a prerequisite for creating new knowledge. For this reason, deep research marks a significant step toward our broader goal of developing AGI, which OpenAI have long envisioned as capable of producing novel scientific research.
Pecan AI Releases New Copilot for Predictive Modeling
Pecan’s predictive co-pilot simplifies complex datasets by providing users with tools to extract meaningful trends and insights, enabling actionable decision-making. It uses intuitive, conversational AI to help users without data science backgrounds refine data, explore trends, and train predictive models—all within one streamlined platform.
Pliops Set to Announce XDP LightningAI Solution
Pliops XDP LightningAI, a revolutionary accelerated KV distributed smart node, introduces a new petabyte tier of memory below high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for GPU compute applications. It utilizes cost-effective, disaggregated smart storage to retain computed KV caches, allowing them to be retrieved if discarded from HBM.
RelationalAI Announces Snowflake Native App on Azure
Organizations are using RelationalAI and Snowflake to combat fraud, reason over complex relationships and develop knowledge graphs for agentic AI applications with 10x reduction in application code metrics.
TrueFoundry Raises $19 Million in Series A Funding for AI Deployment
Enterprises grapple with governance, data privacy, and rising infrastructure costs like GPU orchestration and model scaling, which slow innovation and limit the impact of AI. TrueFoundry’s platform tackles these pain points head-on, enabling companies to deploy, manage, and scale AI applications seamlessly, securely, and cost-effectively.
UMD Survey Says: AI Jobs on the Rise and Hiring Sinks
The researchers identify AI jobs as those requiring AI skills, while IT jobs comprise a broad group of computer- and math-related occupations. Given the divergent upward trend for AI job postings, “there is clear evidence of a strong ChatGPT effect,” the researchers write.
Zoho Announces Zia Agents AI Platform
These solutions empower enterprises to access, build, and distribute intelligent, autonomous digital agents across their organizations. Beginning today, Zoho and ManageEngine will be previewing pre-built, task-specific Zia Agents, which will deploy across Zoho Corporation’s combined portfolio of 100+ products in the coming weeks.
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NEW Episode of The Digital Analyst with John Santaferraro Featuring William McKnight: Enterprise Enablement in the Age of AI
They discuss the importance of maintaining solid data architecture while embracing AI innovation, the evolution from BI to AI capabilities, and how organizations can prepare for the rise of AI agents. McKnight emphasizes the need for strong leadership, clear ROI focus, and thoughtful architecture choices in successful AI implementations.
NEW Episode of Evolving ERP with Dan Aldridge Featuring Doug Shannon
Doug shares insights on AI agents versus traditional automation, emphasizing the importance of combining both approaches and maintaining human oversight while gradually building trust in AI systems. They discuss Satya Nadella’s comments about the future of SaaS and debate whether ERP interfaces will eventually be replaced by AI-driven interactions.
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