Beyond the lakehouse: Fundamental's NEXUS bypasses manual ETL with a native foundation model for tabular data
The deep learning revolution has a curious blind spot: the spreadsheet. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have mastered the nuances of human prose and image generators have conquered the digital canvas, the structured, relational data that underpins the global economy — the rows and columns of ERP systems, CRMs, and financial ledgers — has so far been treated as just another file format similar to text or PDFs.That's left enterprises to forecast business outcomes using the typical bespoke, labor-intensive data science process of manual feature engineering and classic machine learning algorithms that predate modern deep learning.But now Fundamental, a San Francisco-based AI firm co-founded by DeepMind alumni, is launching today with $255 million in total funding to bridge this gap [...]
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Fundamental emerges from stealth with first major foundation model trained for tabular data
The deep learning revolution has a curious blind spot: the spreadsheet. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have mastered the nuances of human prose and image generators have conquered the digital canv [...]
Databricks' serverless database slashes app development from months to days as companies prep for agentic AI
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Databricks set to accelerate agentic AI by up to 100x with ‘Mooncake’ technology — no ETL pipelines for analytics and AI
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The 'last-mile' data problem is stalling enterprise agentic AI — 'golden pipelines' aim to fix it
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Forget Fine-Tuning: SAP’s RPT-1 Brings Ready-to-Use AI for Business Tasks
SAP aims to displace more general large language models with the release of its own foundational “tabular” model, which the company claims will reduce training requirements for enterprises. The m [...]
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Tome's founders ditch viral presentation app with 20M users to build AI-native CRM Lightfield
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