Plus announces an autonomous trucking pilot program in Europe and China with IVECO, the commercial brand of CNH Industrial. Futurum’s principal analyst Daniel Newman breaks down what this means for the trucking industry and the future of autonomous trucking.
MicroAI Factory: The AI Edge Platform Essential to Smart Automation of Food and Beverage Industry Processes
The MicroAI Factory AI-driven analytics platform is an agile solution developed to improve manufacturer overall equipment effectiveness by providing actionable, real-time analysis of productivity, machines, and human data. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the overall MicroAI Factory platform fulfills the topmost lifecycle management, operational efficiency, automated reporting, and workflow management requirements that substantially augment the manufacturing processes of the Food and Beverage industry.
Intel and Dell Partner with American Association of Community Colleges on Furthering AI Education
Futurum’s Shelly Kramer covers the partnership between Intel and Dell and the American Association of Community Colleges to enhance artificial intelligence (AI) education in community and technical colleges in all 50 states by 2023 as part of Intel’s AI for Workforce Program.
Lenovo Harnesses AI at the Edge with ThinkEdge SE450 Launch
Lenovo introduces the ThinkEdge SE450 with new compact, ruggedized and quiet design that aims to advance AI-driven business insights, performance, scaling flexibility, and security across the intelligent edge, presenting a new competitive challenge to key rivals HPE and Dell. Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why the purpose-designed Lenovo ThinkEdge SE450 is well-suited for the distinct demands of today’s intelligent edge environments and augment edge AI capabilities for key market verticals such as telecom, smart cities, manufacturing, and retail.
Insights From Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit – Part 1: How Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Signals an AI Inflection Point for The Premium Mobile Tier
Futurum Senior Analyst Olivier Blanchard shares insights and observations from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit. In the first of several pieces that will focus on individual Snapdragon Tech Summit announcements, Blanchard outlines how Qualcomm’s new premium Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 mobile SOC plays into the company’s broader intelligent connected edge ambitions and highlights the paradigm shift that it represents with regard to new benchmarks of performance, particularly regarding AI.
Five9’s Virtual Voiceover Brings Self-Service Experience to Life with Synthetic Voices
Futurum lead analyst Shelly Kramer covers Five9’s launch of its Virtual Voiceover offering, a new capability that will bring self-service experiences to life with synthetic voices, and provides insight on how this kind of technology will quite likely revolutionize the contact center.
C3 AI Wins $500M Department of Defense Contract, Further Validating Strong Vision
Futurum’s Daniel Newman covers C3 AI’s win of a $500 Million Department of Defense contract. The new agreement will allow an accelerated timeline for any DoD agency to acquire C3 AI’s suite of enterprise AI products for modelling and simulation.
Juniper Support Insights Assures Comprehensive AI-driven Junos Portfolio Vision and Message
Juniper extends AI-powered support to entire Junos portfolio to streamline operator efficiencies and augment end user experiences. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the Juniper Support Insight offering spotlights the capabilities of its AI assets and provides more cohesion across Juniper’s portfolio-wide marketing outreach including delivering the benefits of Experience-First Networking.
Cambridge Quantum Releases World’s First Quantum Natural Language Processing Toolkit and Library
Futurum Research’s principal analyst Daniel Newman covers Cambridge Quantum’s release of the first Quantum Natural Language Processing toolkit and library. The toolkit, called lambeq, is the world’s first software toolkit for QNLP that can convert sentences into a quantum circuit, which will open the doors for QNLP developers for unlimited possibilities.
DISH Goes with IBM AI-Powered Assets to Advance Cloud-Native 5G Network Build
DISH chooses IBM to help automate its 5G network deployment, particularly in the targeting of Industry 4.0 verticals and use cases. Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why DISH’s selection of IBM’s AI-powered automation and network orchestration capabilities provides the essential capabilities needed to push its cloud-native 5G network deployment forward and boosts the Cloud Pak for Network Automation proposition across the 5G ecosystem, especially among operators.