BROWSING: Industrial AI

RCR Wireless News to host virtual Industrial 5G Forum on November 5th

As industries grapple with the complexities of Industry 4.0, many are still in the experimental phase. Yet, the dawn of the 5th Industrial Revolution is already upon us, with AI poised to work hand-in-hand with humans. But are businesses aware that the next wave of innovation is already gathering...

Nokia intros autonomous drone inventory-counting for US warehouse customers

Nokia has added a new drone-mounted automated counting function to its inventory monitoring service for warehouse customers in the US. It slots into its autonomous drone product, offered as part of its so-called Nokia AIMS (Autonomous Inventory Monitoring Service) package of drone-based logistics tools....

Gen AI will be all over enterprise software in two years – says Capgemini poll

If you work with software, in any industry, then you’ll be using gen AI before you know it, if you aren’t already. This is the conclusion of an interesting study by Capgemini into the most hyped technology out there. And the early results are...

AI risk and reward is driving Industry 4.0 c-suite to distraction, says Cisco study

Cisco has just issued a research study about the state of networking in the broad Industry 4.0 sector, and it is really good – comprehensive, and well communicated. Quite how much of it is genuinely new or surprising is open to debate, but it...

NIST makes $70m funding offer for new US industrial AI institute

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US is offering up to $70 million in funding for a new Manufacturing USA institute to develop AI for productivity and security for the US manufacturing sector. It has opened a competition and requested...

‘Deep enthusiasm’ – 90% of firms finding ‘unexpected’ AI uses, finds Honeywell poll

A survey by US-based Honeywell says “only” less than one in five (17 percent of) AI “influencers” in enterprises have “fully implemented initial AI plans”. Which is a statistic that might be taken the other way, too; to say so many are already on...

Soracom embeds gen AI developer tools into cellular IoT platform

KDDI-owned Soracom has embedded generative AI capabilities into its cellular IoT connectivity and services platform, it has said. It has introduced two new services to help IoT developers with more complex IoT deployments. These are Soracom Flux and Query Intelligence; the first is a...

NTT Data intros edge AI platform to fuse data from private 5G and IoT setups

NTT Data, the global system integrator division of Japanese group NTT, has introduced a new edge AI platform that “integrates and synthesises” data from sensors, devices, and systems in enterprise venues to flow into task-specific industrial AI models. It is being offered as a...

Telco AI Forum 2024 – Key Findings Report

In an era marked by the democratization of GenAI, the telecoms sector has reached a pivotal moment where the potential of AI to revolutionize network performance, elevate customer services and redefine experiences is evident. How can legacy telcos adapt and implement AI to foster dynamic, high-performing, energy-efficient...

AI is pivotal to both enterprises’ and communication service providers’ digital transformation

Dell Technologies helps to accelerate your AI journey Dell Technologies World served as the company’s annual stake in the ground, where strategic and product roadmaps are laid out and detailed. This year at the event, the opportunity presented by artificial intelligence (AI) was (obviously) the...

Four in five using AI, says TCS – as it brings gen AI and IoT support for enterprises

India-based IT consultancy and system integrator Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has launched a generative AI aggregation platform for enterprise customers and a new IoT lab in the US, with a stated remit to support sensor deployments feeding into developing industrial AI projects. It has...

Fujitsu and Cohere combine RAG and LLMs to develop gen AI for enterprises

Fujitsu is working with US data security and privacy outfit Cohere on a number of industry-geared AI projects, including joint development of a Japanese large language model (LLM) for enterprises in Japan, as well as an exclusive global reseller deal for other generative AI...

From RAG to riches with industrial AI – what is retrieval augmented generation (RAG)?

Speaking at an event in London on Wednesday (July 10), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) presented its portfolio of joint AI solutions and integrations with Nvidia, along with its channel strategy and training regime, to UK journalists and analysts that did not make the trip...

‘There is only one gamechanger’ – new UK government told to get radical with AI

The only way out of this mess is with technology, an old Labour prime minister told a new Labour prime minister in London today (June 9) – four days after a new UK government won power in a landslide election victory, and got a...

IBM preps for AI “explosion” with €2bn double-deal for Software AG data divisions

IBM has completed its acquisition of StreamSets and webMethods from Software AG for a fee of about €2.13 billion ($2.3 billion). The double-deal, announced at the end of last year, has passed regulatory approval. It adds data ingestion capabilities to IBM's WatsonX AI and...

Singtel and Hitachi pair 5G and AI for global Industry 4.0 push

Singapore-based operator Singtel is working with Hitachi Digital, the digital-change unit of Japanese tech conglomerate Hitachi, to combine their respective 5G and AI offerings in service of the Industry 4.0 sector. Hitachi Digital will deploy Singtel’s Paragon edge platform at its R&D Labs in...

AI, RIS, HAPS, 6G, AR/VR – five future techs to change the world

The World Economic Forum has listed 10 emerging technologies with the “greatest potential to make a positive impact in the world in the next three-to-five years”. Which is a curious kind of exercise, as it turns out, because five years is not long in...

Everyone wants AI, but hardly anyone has the data – says Zebra poll of Industry 4.0

The big problem for Industry 4.0 is that most manufacturing companies do not have a live view of production in their factories. Which means the sector’s big hopes about AI-assisted automation and efficiency are unrealistic. This is the conclusion of a poll of 1,200...

IBM and Red Hat eye ‘community-driven’ gen AI for Industry 4.0

IBM’s research and development (R&D) unit has issued an interesting blog about domain-specific generative AI (gen AI) for Industry 4.0, which talks about how developers can convene around a “community-driven approach” to language model development. It has introduced a new technique for training enterprise-geared...

HPE and Nvidia combine compute and cloud to drive gen AI for Industry 4.0

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Nvidia have introduced a portfolio of joint AI solutions and integrations, together with joint sales tactics, to accelerate adoption of generative AI in Industry 4.0. They are presented under the banner Nvidia AI Computing by HPE, and include, as...

Telefónica Tech and IBM combine on AI for enterprises in Spain

Telefónica Tech, the enterprise division of Spain-based operator Telefónica, has signed with IBM to develop AI solutions for enterprises in its home market. They will use the US firm’s Watsonx AI and data platform as the basis of all their work, which is to...

“Not for companies, not for the state” – five things to know about the European AI Act

The new Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) sets a common regulatory and legal framework for the development and application of AI in the European Union (EU). It was proposed by the European Commission (EC) in April 2021 and passed in the European Parliament last...

Hitachi signs with Microsoft to apply gen AI to group operations, enterprise customers

Following hard on the heels of a similar-sounding deal with Google Cloud, Hitachi has announced a three-year partnership with Microsoft with a major focus on generative AI (gen AI) for its own staff and services, as well as for enterprise customers, notably in the...

Fujitsu preps gen AI framework for specialist enterprise usage

Fujitsu is readying a generative AI framework to help enterprises manage large volumes of data, and comply with regulations for its governance. It will be offered with its enterprise AI platform, called Kozuchi, from July. It said the new framework will solve issues for...