This Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 15

130 CoPilots, AI infrastructure concerns, smaller task-specific AI models, LLMs as more than mere “autocompletion engines,” IBM Concert’s potential, and the challenges of optimizing work management environments across your IT ecosystem. Amalgam Insights’ Hyoun Park and The DX Report’s Charles Araujo dig into This Week in Enterprise Tech.

Microsoft’s AI-Driven Transformation

Charles Araujo and Hyoun Park take a closer look at how Microsoft's vision both aligns and conflicts with enterprise IT standards.

Stratechery: https://stratechery.com/2024/windows-returns/

The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/21/24158030/microsoft-copilot-ai-automation-agents

CIO Infrastructure Concerns for AI

The CIO's responsibility is to support all corporate technologies, including the most dreaded and hyped one, AI. NVIDIA and Dell show an intriguing approach to supporting all the infrastructure needed to make private AI environments.

Venturebeat on NVIDIA https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidias-jensen-huang-says-20000-genai-startups-are-now-building-on-its-platform/

SiliconANGLE on Dell Tech World https://siliconangle.com/2024/05/23/dell-ai-factory-edge-workloads-delltechworld/

CIOs Must Support Future AI Great and Small

CIOs must also be concerned with supporting smaller language models. Companies must start thinking about how to index and scale their data while building appropriate models.

Wired: https://link.wired.com/public/35474099

Scale raises $1B Series F https://scale.com/blog/scale-ai-series-f

Anthropic Asks, “What’s Inside Your AI?”

In response to common claims that large language models are just "autocompletion" engines, Anthropic has been analyzing more deeply how its LLMs behave when it references specific concepts or phenomena.

Wired - https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-black-box-ai-research-neurons-features/

IBM Concert: Product or Capability?

At IBM Think, Hyoun Park noticed the debut of IBM Concert, which shows a practical side to the use of AI for managing IT, but leaves a few questions.

IBM - https://newsroom.ibm.com/Blog-Introducing-IBM-Concert-Control-your-operations-with-generative-AI-insights

Work Management: The CIO’s Dilemma

Work Management has become one of the most varied subcategories of software in the enterprise world. The opportunities to optimize work management costs and tools often come at the cost of internal political capital in working on a cross-functional basis.  What can CIOs do about this trick subcategory of the SaaS world?

Wall Street Journal - https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-battle-over-project-management-software-is-getting-personal-821b1927?mod=djemCIO

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:

Charles Araujo of The DX Report and

Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights