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NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. Good news for open-source AI, or the start of something else? Our new blog looks at what it could mean.symbyte.tech/nvidia-acquires… #opensourceai
Nvidia is in two of this week’s four AI stories, and neither is a model launch. Meta and Google have the other two, and both did put a model out. Full rundown on LinkedIn: lnkd.in/p/ds2XmbV2 #symbyte #airecap
The expensive mistake isn't the priciest option upfront.
Building custom when off-the-shelf would do the job. Forcing off-the-shelf to do a job it wasn't built for. Both look fine on day one. Both get expensive later, in different ways.
#symbyte #SoftwareDevelopment
Give an AI agent good tool use, put it in a loop, and you get something that works like an employee, to an extent.
Hear how it got there in the clip. Full conversation via the link youtu.be/1XCUHOCLF00
#symbyte #aiagents
"People need to change HOW they work, not WHAT they use."
That's Xander on why most enterprises aren't seeing real results from AI yet. Short to medium term, he expects the biggest difference from agentic coding, general Q&A and agentic analytics.
#symbyte #agenticai
Digitata runs on 25TB of data and billions of rows, and their telco customers expect answers quickly. The lakehouse we deployed is built to keep up with that.
#symbyte #dataengineering
Symbyte has a new look. Same team, same focus on turning messy data into something you can actually act on.
New site is live, go have a look.
Full site's live: symbyte.tech/
#symbyte #techsa
Would you know if a video had been made by AI? The EU now expects certain AI-generated content, deepfakes included, to be clearly labelled.
That's one of four stories in this week's AI Recap, alongside IBM, OpenAI, Google, and NVIDIA. Full rundown in the graphic.
View the full post on linkedin: linkedin.com/posts/symbyte_a…
Ever heard of the Pentagon Pizza Index or how a fitness app once gave away the location of secret military bases?
Episode 3 of Two Guys in a Random Forest gets into stories like these, plus prediction markets, autonomous drones, and how AI agents are changing the way people work
Writing made memory less necessary. The printing press made copying less necessary. What does AI make unnecessary, and are we okay with losing it?
New blog post on cognitive atrophy and the bicycle vs mobility scooter problem.
symbyte.tech/posts/the-exter…
Not every project needs a year long roadmap.
Symbyte starts with the actual problem, not the tech. We scope something specific, build in stages, and stay involved once it's live.
#symbyte #dataconsulting
"Privacy is dead."
This week's clip gets into who actually gets to decide when data collection crosses a line, and whether choice still matters once it's already out there.
Full clip and episode here: youtu.be/Ke2MlPkX-ls?si=WkaK…
There is still no AI.
Bold thing for a data and AI consultancy to say, but stay with us. Our latest blog treats AI as an engineering problem, not magic: guardrails, retrieval, error correction, a human always in the loop.
symbyte.tech/posts/there-is-…
#symbyte #aiagents
Software developers look for automation workflows. Data analysts look for metric patterns.True tech transformation happens when they collide. At Symbyte, we fuse custom software engineering and analytics under one roof.
The result? Systems that clear today’s operational bottlenecks while structuring your data foundation for tomorrow's AI integrations.#Symbyte #softwareengineering #dataanalytics #automation #digitaltransformation