One of the highlights of the CES event last week was the Nvidia Corp. keynote delivered by Chief Executive Jensen Huang. Though there are many focal points to an event such as CES, the one pervasive theme is artificial intelligence, and no company has become more synonymous with AI than Nvidia. That’s why thousands of people queued up for hours in advance to hear the latest and greatest vision and product news from the company’s leader.
I’m a big fan of any technology that makes our lives easier. One example of this is Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology, which I consider to be the easiest check out experience available today. Customers tap their credit card on a reader, walk in a store, pick up whatever they want and then, as the name suggests, just walk out of the store and everything is charged to your account.
Artificial intelligence leader Nvidia Corp. Monday announced the Nemotron-3 family of models, data and tools, and the release is further evidence of the company’s commitment to the open ecosystem, focusing on delivering highly efficient, accurate and transparent models essential for building sophisticated agentic AI applications.
Zoom Communications Inc. is a fascinating company in that it’s one of the few corporate technology brands that resonates with end users as well as information technology pros. I’m aware of many instances where the IT organization was considering an alternate communications product but the demand from the user community was so strong that Zoom was purchased. Zoom’s ease of use made it the product of choice during the stay-at-home period of the pandemic and user loyalty grew from there.
High-performance network provider Arista Networks Inc. today announced the next wave of innovations for its campus network solutions. The new products include expansion of its Virtual ES with Path Aliasing, or VESPA, offering, which will make it easier for businesses to deploy large-scale mobility domains. The Santa Clara networking company also announced it is expanding its Autonomous Virtual Assistant, or AVA, its agentic artificial intelligence solution, to help organizations streamline AI operations use cases.