This Week in Enterprise Tech, Week 23

This Week in Enterprise Tech

This Week in Enterprise Technology, Hyoun Park and Charles Araujo tackle the following:

1. Crowdstrike Takes Down The World
2. Mid-Size Models Take Center Stage for Gen AI
3. Lattice AI Bots Are People?

Crowdstrike Takes Down The World

Just as Charles and Hyoun thought we had made it to Friday and we were going to finish off a lazy summer week, Crowdstrike added a little excitement to everyone’s workplace. Flights were canceled, government agencies of all shapes and sizes were shut down, and it became much harder to buy things if only for a few hours. What is the CIO‘s responsibility in light of these challenges from a technology sourcing basis and considering global technology deployments?

Microsoft: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/07/20/helping-our-customers-through-the-crowdstrike-outage/

Parmy Olson for Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-19/crowdstrike-s-nightmare-it-microsoft-outage-shouldn-t-be-normal

Mid-Size Models Take Center Stage for Gen AI

There was a lot of focus on midsize large language models this week as both Mistral and OpenAI came out with their midsized models and enterprises are talking about their own focus on building custom midsize models for their own use cases. Also, Hyoun and Charles take a look at Vectara, which just raised a $25 million A round to support enterprise RAG.

OpenAI: https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-mini-advancing-cost-efficient-intelligence/

Mistral: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-nemo/

Isabella Bousquette for the Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/these-ai-models-are-pretty-mid-thats-why-companies-love-them-710a0f72?mod=djemCIO

MSN: https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/openai-holds-talks-with-broadcom-about-developing-new-ai-chip-the-information-reports/ar-BB1qeyfX

Sean Michael Kerner for VentureBeat: https://venturebeat.com/ai/vectara-raises-25m-as-it-launches-mockingbird-llm-for-enterprise-rag-applications/

Lattice AI Bots Are People?!

Soylent Green is people?! HR software company Lattice announced that they would manage AI as employees, before quickly rescinding that statement.

While the emergence of AI is not quite as worrisome as Soylent Green, it is still a stretch to manage AI with the same tools used to manage people. AI is not people. Beyond the initial goofiness of this story, is there a deeper issue that we should be careful of as we consider the role that AI does play in the workplace?

Jay Peters for The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/15/24199054/lattice-digital-workers-ai

This Week In Enterprise Tech is hosted by:
Charles Araujo of The DX Report and
Hyoun Park of Amalgam Insights