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This story contains interviews with David Smith, chief community officer at Revolution Analytics; Casey Herron, data scientist at Revolution Analytics; Tess Nesbitt, director of analytics at DataSong; ...

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Is your generative AI application giving the responses you expect? Are there less expensive large language models—or even free ones you can run locally—that might work well enough for some of your ...

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Microsoft kicked off the Spark Summit in San Francisco with news of “an extensive commitment for Spark to power Microsoft’s big data and analytics offerings, including Cortana Intelligence Suite, ...