McDonald’s teams up with Google Cloud for AI and edge use cases

McDonald’s and Google have announced a multi-year global partnership to utilise Google Cloud technology in its restaurants – with a particular focus on generative AI and edge use cases.

The agreement will see updates to various aspects of the McDonald’s restaurant and customer platforms, from the company’s mobile app to self-service kiosks. Edge computing capabilities will be used to gain new insights into how equipment is performing, while on the generative AI side, a...

7 December 2023 | Cloud Computing

LogicMonitor launches Dexda, AI for hybrid observability

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LogicMonitor, an SaaS-based AI for hybrid observability platform, is bridging the AIOps gap with the launch of Dexda, an AI solution for Hybrid Observability. 

Using machine learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) to automate insights and deliver a contextualised experience, LogicMonitor's Dexda empowers ITOps teams to effortlessly identify problems, determine the root cause of those problems faster than ever before, and prevent events from exploding into...

16 October 2023 | Cloud Computing

Jaap van Vliet, Ambit Software: Navigating the intricacies of digital transformation

In an interview at this year’s Digital Transformation Week Europe, Ambit Software Managing Director Jaap van Vliet delved into the intricacies of digital transformation and how the company utilises innovative strategies to assist clients globally.

"We try to help to accelerate our customers to improve their business,” says van Vliet. “We do that from multi-angles: from the sales perspective, marketing perspective, and customer service perspective."

Integration of...

13 October 2023 | Digital Transformation

NexGen Cloud’s $1bn AI supercloud to turbocharge AI in Europe

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NexGen Cloud, a sustainable Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, announced plans and funding for one of Europe’s first AI Supercloud deployments to support the development and growth of AI enterprises.

UK-based NexGen Cloud, an Elite member of the NVIDIA Partner Network, plans to invest $1 billion to build its AI Supercloud in Europe, with $576 million already committed in hardware orders with suppliers. The AI Supercloud will provide a dedicated compute-intensive platform for...

10 October 2023 | Banking & Finance

OVHcloud adds GPUs to help companies power AI’s most demanding workloads 

OVHcloud, part of the NVIDIA Partner Network, continues to develop its portfolio of AI solutions, adding new NVIDIA GPU product offerings that form an integral part of its strategic vision for artificial intelligence.

Acknowledging the tremendous impact AI will have in the years to come, OVHcloud is on a mission to help customers grow their businesses, uniting an ecosystem through innovative, easy and affordable AI solutions, featuring transparent, ethical and open models that...

4 October 2023 | Cloud Computing

2023 State of Tech in Biopharma report reveals tech strategies in era of data and AI 

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Benchling has launched its inaugural 2023 State of Tech in Biopharma report, which has shed light on the obstacles that biopharma encounter when striving to fully implement and embrace these technologies. 

The report surveyed 300 R&D and IT experts from biopharma companies large and small to do a first-ever investigation into biopharma’s use of an enabling tech stack — consisting of robotics and automation, connected instruments, R&D data platforms, cloud-based...

21 September 2023 | Applications

AWS and Twilio deepen relationship to power customer engagement

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Twilio, a customer engagement platform, have extended their longstanding strategic work together that will place powerful artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities at the fingertips of Twilio customers.

This news follows the recent announcement of Twilio CustomerAI. With its CustomerAI technology layer, Twilio powerfully combines customer engagement platform data, generative and predictive AI, and large language models (LLMs) to unlock stronger...

10 August 2023 | AWS

Alibaba Cloud launches AI image generation model, Tongyi Wanxiang

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has unveiled its latest AI image generation model, Tongyi Wanxiang (‘Wanxiang’ means ‘tens of thousands of images’).

The cutting-edge generative AI model is now available for enterprise customers in China for beta testing.

In addition, the cloud pioneer announced the launch of ModelScopeGPT, a versatile framework designed to assist users in accomplishing complex and...

13 July 2023 | Alibaba Cloud

Salesforce to invest $4 billion in its UK business over five years

Salesforce, a specialist in CRM, has revealed it plans to invest $4 billion in its UK business in the next five years.

Salesforce is experiencing rapid growth in the UK as companies invest in their digital transformations and leverage the incredible innovation cycle around artificial intelligence. The company has been investing in the UK over many years and this new investment builds on a previous five-year investment of $2.5 billion announced in 2018. This continued investment...

5 July 2023 | Cloud Computing

Rackspace Technology partners with Google Cloud to offer generative AI services

Rackspace Technology, and end-to-end, multicloud solutions company, has extended its partnership with Google Cloud.

Foundry for Generative AI by Rackspace (FAIR) for Google Cloud is dedicated to accelerating the secure, responsible, and sustainable adoption of generative AI solutions in enterprises across all industries.

“This partnership is a force multiplier to accelerate the pragmatic and secure use-case-based adoption of generative AI in businesses across all...

3 July 2023 | Cloud Computing