At Qlik, we're witnessing a thrilling shift in the landscape of data analysis, customer engagement, and decision-making processes, all thanks to the advent of generative AI, especially Large Language Models (LLMs). The potential for transformation across all sectors is enormous, but the journey toward integration can be daunting for many businesses with many leaders wondering where to start in integrating the exciting capabilities of AI into their daily workflows.

In today’s data-driven world, developer productivity is essential for organizations to build effective and reliable products, accelerate time to value, and fuel ongoing innovation. To deliver on these goals, developers must have the ability to manipulate and analyze information efficiently. Yet while SQL applications have long served as the gateway to access and manage data, Python has become the language of choice for most data teams, creating a disconnect.

If you were to stop someone walking down the street and ask them how long artificial intelligence, or AI, has been a hot topic, they might say it’s something that’s emerged mostly in recent years. But AI has been around for a long time, with the term first being coined as long ago as 1955. Generative AI however is a different beast, and one that's largely responsible for moving the topic of AI to the tip of everyone’s tongues – from consumers to enterprises alike.

Support for model fine-tuning in BigQuery takes input text (the prompt) and the expected output, and teaches the model to mimic the behavior.

Marketers everywhere are anxious about what fortune the cookieless future holds — but I think we should embrace what will be a refreshing change.

Today Snowflake is launching and open-sourcing with an Apache 2.0 license the Snowflake Arctic embed family of models. Based on the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB) Retrieval Leaderboard, the largest Arctic embed model with only 334 million parameters is the only one to surpass average retrieval performance of 55.9, a feat only less practical to deploy models with over 1 billion parameters are able to achieve.

With data continuously growing in complexity and quantity, ensuring data security is more important than ever when choosing to buy a business intelligence (BI) solution. From data protection to data governance, having a BI platform that enables you to control, audit, encrypt and manage user access and usage of sensitive data is essential.

In March, Snowflake announced exciting releases, including advances in AI and ML with new features in Snowflake Cortex, new governance and privacy features in Snowflake Horizon, and broader developer support with the Snowflake CLI. Read on to learn more about everything we announced last month.

You can now query Delta Lake tables stored in Cloud Storage or Amazon Web Services S3 directly from BigQuery, without exporting or copying the data.