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Confluent Connectors | Fast, frictionless, and secure Apache Kafka integrations

Every company faces the perennial problem of data integration but often experiences data silos, data quality issues, and data loss from point-to-point, batch-based integrations. Connectors decouple data sources and sinks through Apache Kafka, simplifying your architecture while providing flexibility, resiliency, and reliability at a massive scale.

Snowflake Launches the World's Best Practical Text-Embedding Model for Retrieval Use Cases

Today Snowflake is launching and open-sourcing with an Apache 2.0 license the Snowflake Arctic embed family of models. Based on the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB) Retrieval Leaderboard, the largest Arctic embed model with only 334 million parameters is the only one to surpass average retrieval performance of 55.9, a feat only less practical to deploy models with over 1 billion parameters are able to achieve.

LLM Metrics: Key Metrics Explained

Organizations that monitor their LLMs will benefit from higher performing models at higher efficiency, while meeting ethical considerations like ensuring privacy and eliminating bias and toxicity. In this blog post, we bring the top LLM metrics we recommend measuring and when to use each one. In the end, we explain how to implement these metrics in your ML and gen AI pipelines.

Snowflake Horizon Demo For Data Engineers

In this demo targeted at data engineers, Ravi Kumar, Senior Partner Sales Engineer at Snowflake, shows you how to govern and discover data, apps, and more in Snowflake Horizon. Learn and try the core capabilities of Snowflake Horizon to unify data across different sources and formats, such as by loading data securely into Snowflake based on RBAC privileges and being interoperable with Iceberg Tables in external cloud storage.

BigQuery data canvas overview

Reimagine your data analysis experience with the AI-powered BigQuery data canvas. This natural language centric tool simplifies the process of finding, querying, and visualizing your data. Its intuitive features help you discover data assets quickly, generate SQL queries, automatically visualize results, and seamlessly collaborate with others – all within a unified interface.