Zoom this week announced a partnership with artificial intelligence system developer Anthropic. As part of the partnership, Zoom will invest in Anthropic and collaborate with the company to improve Zoom’s use of AI. The exact amount Zoom Ventures invested in Anthropic was not disclosed.
Digital businesses are more reliant on their networks than ever before. Technologies that enable digital transformation, such as IoT, mobility, and cloud, are all network-centric, and that has raised the bar on the value of the network. My research shows that almost two-thirds of business leaders believe the network is more valuable today than it was five years ago.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is diving deeper into generative artificial intelligence (AI) software development with the launch of several new products. The goal is to make generative AI more accessible and affordable to a broader audience, by giving developers the choice to use pre-trained foundation models (FM) rather than having to train models from scratch.
Major League Baseball (MLB) has a rich history as the oldest major professional sports league in the world, with a massive following of 175 million fans in the U.S. and millions more worldwide. MLB boasts 100 million tickets sold annually, a strong social media presence, and 11 billion minutes streamed on MLB TV each year. In 2000, MLB centralized its digital rights, creating a unique structure compared to other sports leagues.
At Enterprise Connect 2023, Cisco introduced several artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Webex capabilities designed specifically for hybrid work. Chief among them are smart lighting and smart backgrounds for Webex meetings, improved video resolution when bandwidth degrades on one side, and improved camera tracking in a meeting space during a hybrid meeting.