Learning to live with "good enough" AI
Today: why companies building generative AI applications might not need to wait for perfection, The Linux Foundation gets bigger, and the latest enterprise moves.
LibertyGPT is an internal application that is currently being used by more than 10,000 Liberty Mutual employees to summarize information and answer common questions. An early version was built in just two weeks thanks to previously established data pipelines and cost controls.
Today on Product Saturday: SAP strikes a big partnership with Databricks, Glean introduces its agent builder, and the quote of the week.
Today: Almost a year after agentic AI became every vendor's North Star, business remains slow, OpenAI clarifies its roadmap, and the latest enterprise moves.
It was only in the last six months that Canva decided generative AI coding assistants were good enough for its employees. It got there through a period of trial and error that suggests GenAI vendors need more flexible pricing strategies.
Today: Canva CTO Brendan Humphreys explains why culture is as important to a GenAI rollout as the tools themselves, Elon Musk finds another way to troll Sam Altman, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Today on Product Saturday: Google jumps on the reasoning model train, Chainguard promises to leave no vulnerability unseen, and the quote of the week.
Today: AWS narrowly misses analyst estimates if you're not into the rounding thing, Stanford and UW researchers think they've found a way to out-DeepSeek DeepSeek, and the latest enterprise moves.
Today: Vercel unveils a new serverless computing architecture that's better equipped to manage idle resources, nobody knows what Elon Musk's minions are doing to the federal government's servers, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.
Vercel's serverless infrastructure was designed at a time when speed was the most important goal. AI apps are a little different, and Fluid Compute is an effort to rebuild that infrastructure for the AI era.
Today on Product Saturday: The Allen Institute for AI releases an actual open-source challenger to DeekSeek's V3 model, Microsoft open-sources a NoSQL database under an old and familiar name, and the quote of the week.
Today: Microsoft's second-quarter earnings report pointed to an interesting question about the future of enterprise app development, the fallout from DeepSeek's depth charge continues, and the latest enterprise moves.
How DeepSeek's new AI model upended industry assumptions about the price of building leading-edge AI models, the U.K. will consider remedies to address cloud competition involving AWS and Microsoft, and the latest funding rounds in enterprise tech.