ServiceNow’s Apriel 2.0 promises smarter AI with less hardware — but offers no benchmarks

ServiceNow has announced an updated version of its Apriel open-source language model. The model is built on Nvidia’s Nemotron framework and targets financial services, healthcare, and telecommunications industries, where regulators have made IT leaders cautious about proprietary AI systems, the company said in a statement. ServiceNow said Apriel 2.0 delivers reasoning comparable to much larger…

Developing an approach for industry LLMs

This article was co-authored by Sourav Kamila, Enterprise Architect, Wipro Limited. Industry foundational models (sometimes businesspeople use the term industry LLMs) are specialized AI models that are fine-tuned or pre-trained to excel in a particular field or sector, such as healthcare, finance, legal, manufacturing or retail. These models are designed to deeply understand the jargon,…

AI won’t save you. But your data might

As companies race to capture ROI from AI, many are learning a hard truth: AI only creates value when it’s anchored in business outcomes and built on strong data foundations. Jeremy Bruck, a partner at global business and tech consulting firm West Monroe, which advises private equity firms and their portfolio companies on how to…

Why CIOs need to master the art of adaptation

In the 1960s and early ’70s, Chrysler Corporation was a muscle-car powerhouse. It rolled out Dodge Chargers and Plymouth Barracudas with Hemi V8 engines that roared past 425 horsepower. Loud, fast, and stylish, these cars made Chrysler a cultural icon, and the company kept doubling down on them. But what helped define Chrysler’s glory years…

The engineering imperative: Why AI won’t replace your best developers

As generative AI promises to revolutionize software development, technology leaders face a critical question: Will AI eliminate the need for skilled engineers? History and current evidence suggest the opposite. While AI excels at generating the routine 70% of code, the critical 30% encompassing architecture, security, performance optimization and business logic remains uniquely human territory. A…

Gurps Khaira: “La ciberseguridad ha dejado de ser una conversación técnica para estar presente en el consejo de dirección”

El experto en ciberseguridad, transformación digital y gestión del cambio Gurps Khaira, un ejecutivo con más de 15 años de experiencia en el liderazgo tecnológico de instituciones financieras globales como HSBC, compartió en el evento People, Processes & Cybersecurity Summit, organizado por la cabecera CIO ESPAÑA el pasado 23 de octubre en Madrid, las claves…

에이전틱 AI가 IT 운영을 바꾸는 8가지 방법

사람의 감독이 거의 필요 없는 상태에서 특정 업무를 수행할 수 있는 에이전틱 AI는 IT 운영과 서비스를 근본적으로 혁신할 기술로 주목받고 있다. 사람의 의사결정을 모방하는 AI 에이전트를 활용해 문제를 실시간으로 분석하고 해결하는 방식이다. IT 운영은 네트워킹, 스토리지, 컴퓨팅, 보안 등 다양한 영역을 포괄하며, 이는 비즈니스 플랫폼과 제품 포트폴리오의 기반이 된다. 신용평가 기업 트랜스유니언(TransUnion)의 글로벌 제품 플랫폼…

맷 가먼 AWS CEO “AI 에이전트가 차세대 혁신의 핵심”···아태 지역에 400억 달러 투자

AWS의 CEO 맷 가먼이 29일 오늘 한국 경주에서 열린 아시아태평양경제협력체(APEC) 최고경영자(CEO) 서밋 기조연설에서 AI 에이전트가 비즈니스 운영 방식을 근본적으로 바꿀 차세대 혁신의 핵심임을 강조했다. 이번 행사에서 가먼은 생성형 AI가 기술 혁신의 새로운 물결을 이끌고 있으며, AI 에이전트가 이를 실질적 성과로 전환하는 주요 동력으로 자리 잡고 있다고 설명했다. 또한 그는 AI 에이전트의 도입이 기존 생성형 AI의…