Lost in the talk about OpenAI is the tremendous amount of compute needed to train and fine-tune LLMs, like GPT, and Generative AI, like ChatGPT. Each iteration requires more compute and the limitation imposed by Moore’s Law quickly moves that task from single compute instances to distributed compute. To accomplish this, OpenAI has employed Ray to power the distributed compute platform to train each release of the GPT models.

When it comes to choosing a business intelligence (BI) solution vendor for your business, there are a variety of factors to consider. One important area of comparison is the natural language query (NLQ) features offered by different BI vendors. NLQ is increasingly becoming a key capability of the modern self-service analytics experience, as it allows users to ask complex questions of their data, and receive insightful answers in the form of a pre-generated, best practice data visualizations.

Data is core to decision making today and organizations often turn to the cloud to build modern data apps for faster access to valuable insights. With cloud operating models, decision making can be accelerated, leading to competitive advantages and increased revenue. Can you achieve similar outcomes with your on-premises data platform? You absolutely can.

Unwelcome … are platform instability, downtime, hardware failure, poor performance, cluster resource contention, repeated process failures, runaway live queries, critical services alarms, invisibility into alarm cacophony… the list goes on. If those are ailments you would like to remedy …