In this week’s real-time analytics news: MLCommons announced new results for its industry-standard MLPerf Inference v5.1 benchmark suite.
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MLCommons announced new results for its industry-standard MLPerf Inference v5.1 benchmark suite, tracking the forward momentum of the AI community and its new capabilities, new models, and new hardware and software systems.
This round of MLPerf Inference results sets a record for the number of participants submitting systems for benchmarking at 27. Those submissions include systems using five newly available processors and improved versions of AI software frameworks. The v5.1 suite introduces three new benchmarks that further challenge AI systems to perform at their peak against modern workloads.
The Llama 2 70B benchmark continues to be the most popular benchmark in the suite, with 24 submitters in this round. It gives a clear picture of overall performance improvement in AI systems over time. In some scenarios, the best performing systems improved by as much as 50% over the best system in the 5.0 release just six months ago. This round saw another first: a submission of a heterogeneous system that used software to load-balance an inference workload across different types of accelerators.
To view the results for MLPerf Inference v5.1, visit the Datacenter and Edge benchmark results pages.
Real-time analytics news in brief
NVIDIA announced NVIDIA Rubin CPX, a new class of GPU that is purpose-built for massive-context processing. It enables AI systems to handle million-token software coding and generative video quickly and efficiently. Rubin CPX works hand-in-hand with NVIDIA Vera CPUs and Rubin GPUs inside the new NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL144 CPX platform.
Algolia unveiled the Intelligent Data Kit, a new suite of tools that reimagines how organizations work with data, making it cleaner, smarter, and radically more useful. At the heart of the Intelligent Data Kit will be three core sets of capabilities, comprising data transformation, data enrichment, and integrations that seamlessly connect with the existing data stack using no-code connectors.
C3 AI announced C3 AI Agentic Process Automation, a new product that allows enterprises to encapsulate both business and operational work through autonomous AI agents. Specifically, the solution encapsulates business processes such as order-to-cash, customer service, invoice processing, debt collection, supplier onboarding, procurement, and employee onboarding, as well as industrial operations such as equipment troubleshooting, manufacturing operations, production planning, and more.
CelerData announced a major commitment to openness by open-sourcing StarOS and multi-warehouse features, unveiled the release of StarRocks V4.0, and introduced its vision for an architecture that is AI-ready by design. StarOS, a fundamental project within StarRocks, enables the separation of compute and storage, the architectural shift that powers the platform’s scalability and adaptability. Multi-warehouse builds on this by allowing enterprises to create independent, isolated compute clusters while still sharing the same dataset within a single StarRocks cluster.
Cognite announced a major release of Cognite Atlas AI, a low-code industrial AI agent workbench to power agents with real-time, AI-ready operational technology (OT), information technology (IT), and engineering data. Key enhancements include seamless integration, streamlined agent creation, purpose-built industrial tools, and more.
DiffusionData announced the release of Diffusion 6.12. The latest enhancements have been introduced to speed up development, optimize resource usage, and guarantee consistent, high-performance real-time data delivery. The improvements are designed to accelerate productivity, reduce complexity, and create tangible business value.
NE2NE announced the launch of PDFFlex, an AI-assisted tool that brings surgical precision to data extraction for even the most complex PDF files. PDFFlex is designed to decode the toughest PDFs with the ability to understand categories and information; extract all needed data and transform it into usable formats like Excel spreadsheets, XML, or JSON; and provide the requested output to the user along with a report and any necessary alerts.
pgEdge announced two major milestones: The release of pgEdge Enterprise Postgres and the company’s full transition to an open-source licensing model for its distributed Postgres components and future Postgres-based technologies. pgEdge Enterprise Postgres is an enterprise-grade PostgreSQL distribution built, packaged, and supported by pgEdge. It provides organizations with the reliability, manageability, and enterprise-class support they need to scale PostgreSQL across demanding workloads.
Progress Software announced the launch of Progress Agentic RAG, a SaaS Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) platform designed to make trustworthy and verifiable generative AI accessible across organizations and teams of all sizes. The new platform expands Progress’ portfolio of end-to-end data management, retrieval, and contextualization solutions that empower businesses to leverage all their data to gain a competitive edge.
RavenDB, a multi-model NoSQL document database, announced the launch of its AI Agent Creator, a feature fully integrated into the database that reduces the time required to build AI agents from weeks, months, or even years to just days. Unlike scripted bots or AI-assisted chatbots limited to generic knowledge, with the AI Agent Creator, developers can deploy intelligent agents with built-in guardrails.
Sigma unveiled a suite of powerful new features that are designed to empower everyone—from data consumers to developers—with a new way to derive insights and take action at scale. The release introduces major upgrades to Sigma’s AI-enabled features, new data app tools to automate actions, instant insight delivery with Sigma Reveal, advanced reporting and modeling capabilities, and the debut of Sigma Tenants (a scalable foundation to manage access, content, and governance across internal and embedded use cases).
Sourcetable introduced Superagents, which are autonomous, tool-using AI agents that can connect to any system on the Internet, analyze and manipulate data, and take meaningful action, all from within a spreadsheet. Sourcetable’s Superagents orchestrate systems and assign tasks to individual agents for hands-free automation that turns raw data into insights and action, freeing teams to focus on results instead of busy work.
Syntax Systems announced the launch of its Syntax GenAI Starter Pack, a complete, pre-configured solution designed to help customers safely and rapidly adopt Generative AI (GenAI) technologies. The newest addition to the Syntax GenAI portfolio, the GenAI Starter Pack enables businesses to unlock the transformative potential of GenAI with minimal risk and cost, achieving tangible outcomes and value in weeks rather than months.
ThoughtSpot announced a major platform update built to break through the rigid boundaries of legacy BI tools. Powered by its most advanced AI agent yet, Spotter 3, the platform unifies all company data, from structured data stored in databases to unstructured data in apps such as Slack, Salesforce, Jira, and more, delivering contextual insights instantly. With flexible embedding options via SDK, API, or MCP, ThoughtSpot Embedded enables teams to bring this intelligence into their apps and workflows.
Together AI announced Together Instant Clusters, offering an API-first developer experience. Instant Clusters deliver self-service automation for AI infrastructure—from single-node (8 GPUs) to large multi-node clusters with hundreds of interconnected GPUs, with support for NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs.
Unily announced the launch of Agent Orchestrator, a future-focused innovation designed to help enterprises navigate the rise of AI agents within the workplace. Agent Orchestrator will allow enterprises to centralize their chosen agents into a secure and seamless single-pane-of-glass experience that eliminates guesswork, increases safe AI adoption, and drives productivity for some of the world’s largest and most complex organizations.
Whatfix announced the launch of Whatfix AI Agents embedded across its product suite to accelerate user productivity and drive business performance outcomes. The first three Whatfix AI Agents—Authoring, Insights, and Guidance—are now available across the Whatfix product suite. They focus on transforming the way enterprises create, analyze, and guide in-app experiences. At the heart of these agents is ScreenSense, Whatfix’s proprietary AI technology that continuously interprets both the users’ context within an application and the user’s real-time intent.
Partnerships, collaborations, and more
Cisco announced the Cisco Data Fabric, a new architecture that will empower organizations to harness the value of their machine data with AI. Powered by the Splunk platform, the Cisco Data Fabric is designed to dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of handling machine data at scale and leveraging it for AI applications.
Compass Datacenters and Schneider Electric jointly engineered a pre-fabricated, modular solution for data center end-to-end space optimization. The companies claim the solution removes bottlenecks and sets a new benchmark for AI-ready data centers, delivering the speed, resilience, and sustainability needed by organizations to unlock value and lead in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Latent AI and Wind River, an Aptiv company, announced a strategic cooperation to accelerate edge AI maturity to bring artificial intelligence capabilities to the real-time edge platforms that power mission-critical infrastructure across industries. The collaboration combines Wind River’s edge compute platforms (VxWorks, Wind River Linux, and eLxr Pro) with Latent AI Efficient Inference Platform (LEIP).
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