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Altair partners with Databricks

April 16, 2025 /

Altair, a global provider in computational intelligence, has partnered with Databricks, a data and AI company, to provide joint customers with capabilities for data unification, graph-powered intelligence, and enterprise-grade artificial intelligence (AI).

Customers can use Altair RapidMiner to access, prepare, and analyze data in Databricks without data duplication. The platform’s full-stack AI capabilities—from low-code AutoML to MLOps, agent frameworks, and high-speed visualization, allow organizations to prototype, deploy, and scale AI applications using data stored in Databricks.

A key differentiator is Altair RapidMiner’s massively parallel processing (MPP) knowledge graph technology, purpose-built to support knowledge graph creation, data fabrics, and ontology modeling at enterprise scale. By integrating with Databricks, customers can use the Altair RapidMiner knowledge graph engine to connect, contextualize, and activate all types of data—structured, unstructured, and streaming. These graph-powered fabrics form the foundation for a new generation of intelligent systems, enabling generative AI models and autonomous agents to navigate the full complexity of an organization’s digital operations.

Altair RapidMiner also offers native support for SAS language execution, allowing customers to preserve and extend the value of their existing analytics investments while modernizing their workflows.

https://altair.com/altair-rapidminer ■ https://www.databricks.com

Introducing Aura-2: Enterprise-grade text-to-speech

April 15, 2025 /

Deepgram, a voice AI platform for enterprise use cases, announced Aura‑2, its next-generation text-to-speech (TTS) model purpose-built for real-time voice applications in mission-critical business environments. Engineered for clarity, consistency, low-latency performance, and deployable via cloud or on-premises APIs, Aura‑2 enables developers to build scalable, human-like voice experiences for automated interactions across the enterprise, including customer support, virtual agents, and AI-powered assistants. Aura-2 is built on Deepgram Enterprise Runtime—the infrastructure that powers the company’s speech-to-text (STT) and speech-to-speech (STS) capabilities, providing enterprises with the control, adaptability, and performance required to deploy and scale production-grade voice AI.

A significant gap exists between entertainment-focused models and the operational demands of enterprise-grade voice systems. Entertainment-focused TTS platforms are trained on and optimized for storytelling, character voices, and emotionally expressive delivery. Enterprise applications require more than natural-sounding voices, they demand domain-specific pronunciation, a professional tone, consistent contextual handling, and the ability to perform reliably, cost-effectively, and securely, often in environments that require full deployment control.

Aura-2 is powered by Deepgram Enterprise Runtime (DER)—a custom-built infrastructure layer that runs all of Deepgram’s speech models. Designed specifically for enterprise-grade performance, DER orchestrates voice AI in real time with the speed, reliability, and adaptability required for production-scale deployments.

Introducing Aura-2: Enterprise-Grade Text-to-Speech

MindsDB brings federated data access to Model Context Protocol

April 3, 2025 /

MindsDB announced comprehensive support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across both its open source and enterprise platforms. This integration positions MindsDB as a unified AI data hub that standardizes and optimizes how AI models access enterprise data, simplifying artificial intelligence deployment in complex data environments.

The Model Context Protocol, an emerging open standard developed by Anthropic, creates a universal way for AI applications to connect with data sources and tools. By implementing MCP, MindsDB enables AI applications and agents to run federated queries over data stored in different databases and business applications as if they were a single database. MindsDB’s implementation extends beyond basic MCP compatibility to:

  • Provide one-step querying across multiple sources with comprehensive audit capabilities
  • Integrate with existing enforcement mechanisms to maintain data governance
  • Enable complex workflows including multi-source joins, automated data transformations, and natural language query conversion
  • Use native integrations when MCP support is insufficient and optimizes queries for efficient execution at the data source

MCP support is available in both MindsDB’s open source and enterprise editions. The open source version provides core MCP functionality for developers and small teams, while the enterprise edition adds advanced security, governance features, and premium support for organizational deployments.

https://mindsdb.com

Perplexity integrates firmly.ai ecommerce technology

March 27, 2025 /

Perplexity, an AI answer engine, announced it will be integrating firmly.ai agentic ecommerce technology to scale access to Perplexity’s native shopping experience. This collaboration enables seamless purchases for all consumers and merchants of any size.

Consumers are increasingly using Perplexity to shop online. By embedding firmly.ai’s Agentic commerce platform, Perplexity empowers more users to complete their entire shopping journey, from product discovery to secure transaction, without leaving the platform. This streamlined solution not only shortens the purchase funnel but also solves latency, improving the consumer experience.

With a single integration to firmly.ai’s API, Perplexity can now connect to any e-commerce merchant. Merchants can tap into this new sales channel instantly while retaining their merchant of record (MOR) status, ensuring full control over transactions, customer relationships, and data. Merchants can access millions of potential customers while protecting the value of their brand. For more information and to apply to be part of the native marketplace, visit the firmly.ai site.

https://www.firmly.ai ■ https://www.perplexity.ai

Databricks brings Anthropic Claude models to platform

March 26, 2025 /

Databricks announced a five-year partnership to offer Anthropic models and services natively through the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Combined with Databricks Mosaic AI, the deal brings Anthropic’s Claude models directly to over 10,000 companies, alongside their business-critical, proprietary data. Anthropic’s newest frontier model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, is now available via Databricks on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Databricks Mosaic AI provides the tools to build domain-specific AI agents on organizations’ data that deliver results with governance across the entire data and AI lifecycle, while Anthropic’s Claude models optimize for real-world tasks.

  • Build domain-specific agents on enterprise data: Anthropic Claude provides advanced reasoning, planning and problem-solving capabilities, helping customers build and deploy domain-specific AI agents that can handle large, diverse data sets with a large context window.
  • Integrated natively with the Data Intelligence Platform: Available via SQL query and model endpoint, Claude models integrate into the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. Enterprises can customize Claude models with retrieval augmented generation (RAG) by automatically generating vector indexes or fine-tuning models with enterprise data.
  • Unified governance and responsible AI development: Combines Anthropic’s safety research and constitutional AI approach with Databricks’ Unity Catalog, a unified and open governance solution for data and AI.

https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-and-anthropic-sign-landmark-deal-bring-claude-models

Palantir and Databricks partner

March 13, 2025 /

Databricks, a Data and AI company, and Palantir Technologies Inc. a provider of enterprise operating systems, announced a strategic product partnership that combines Palantir’s AI operating system and Databricks’ platform for AI, data warehousing, and data engineering. The partnership will provide an open and scalable data architecture that combines Palantir’s Ontology System with Databricks’ processing scale and data and AI platform. Palantir and Databricks are delivering real-time, AI-powered autonomous workflows to joint customers through the integration of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform and Palantir AIP. Through the combination of Unity Catalog through Delta Sharing and Palantir’s multimodal security system, joint customers will be able to unlock GenAI, machine learning, and data warehousing within a secure, unified and scalable environment.

This partnership lowers the technical and operational barriers to leveraging GenAI and increases customer value by efficiently deploying autonomous workflows into production. Through joint engineering, customers can consistently govern and secure their entire data estate with a combination of Databricks’ Unity Catalog and Palantir’s military-grade security so enterprises can build on a trusted foundation while maintaining efficiency and keeping TCO low. The integration of Databricks and Palantir is already serving a range of mission-critical outcomes for customers.

https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/palantir-and-databricks-announce-strategic-product-partnership ■ https://www.palantir.com

Coveo augments AI support

March 5, 2025 /

Coveo announced three advancements to augment AI, GenAI, and Agentic AI projects: Coveo for Agentforce, and expanded suite of Coveo APIs and the Coveo Agentic AI Design Partner Program.

Coveo for Agentforce natively integrates into Salesforce, grounding AI agents in contextually relevant, enterprise-wide knowledge—wherever it resides. Coveo for Agentforce is focused on enhancing deployments for large, complex enterprises, to help ensure it delivers the most relevant, up-to-date knowledge instantly. Beyond the first agentic packaged application, Coveo for Agentforce, Coveo’s portfolio continues to grow with both managed and custom AI solutions powered by the Coveo AI-Relevance Platform.

The Coveo suite of APIs has been enhanced to include the Search API, Passage Retrieval API, the Case Classification API and the new Answer API, providing developers with more flexibility to build AI-powered experiences that are precise, secure, and business-aware.

Coveo is also launching an Agentic AI Design Partner Program to collaborate with enterprises. This program allows participants to share their technology needs and challenges while working directly with Coveo’s Product team to tackle the fundamental problems AI applications continue to face.

Coveo for Agentforce is available today in the AgentExchange. 

https://www.coveo.com/en/company/news-releases/2025/agenticai

Couchbase unveils Edge Server

March 4, 2025 /

Couchbase, Inc., a developer data platform for critical applications in our AI world, launched Couchbase Edge Server, an offline-first, lightweight database server and sync solution designed to provide low latency data access, consolidation, storage and processing for applications in resource-constrained edge environments.

Edge applications that rely solely on cloud databases can be slowed down due to connectivity challenges, but local databases don’t always offer a solution as they can be difficult to deploy within limited computing environments.

Couchbase Edge Server is built on the Couchbase Lite core engine, an AI-ready embedded database for running critical applications on hundreds of thousands of client devices. The Edge Server is deployed as a standalone server and provides support for a simple access interface for local client access. It delivers offline-first benefits through seamless synchronization – downstream with Couchbase Lite-based edge clients and upstream to Couchbase Capella and self-managed Couchbase instances.

Couchbase Edge Server enables organizations to run edge applications efficiently on as little as one gigabyte of RAM on a single board computer. This can dramatically reduce the cost of edge deployments across many locations, by serving communities of web and mobile clients at each location through a local database backend.

https://www.couchbase.com/blog/couchbase-edge-server-lightweight-sync/

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