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2026 Predictions: The Rise of Multimodal AI Applications
As 2025 closes, multimodal AI has moved from impressive demos to practical applications. Here are my predictions for how multimodal capabilities will…
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Q1 2025 AI Retrospective: Key Developments and Learnings
Q1 laid the foundation for production AI. Q2 will be about scaling and governance.
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February 2025 AI Recap: Key Developments and Trends
NPUs becoming standard in new PCs Phi 3 and similar SLMs enabling local inference Windows AI features expanding Vector + keyword + sparse becoming standard…
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The Future of Data Platforms: Where We're Headed
The data platform of the future will feel like working with a knowledgeable colleague who understands your data and your business. Start building toward…
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What's Next for AI: The Road from Here
The future of AI is being written now. Stay curious, stay learning, and help shape it responsibly.
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Data Platform Trends: What Shaped 2024 and What's Coming
The data platform landscape is consolidating around unified, AI-native platforms with strong real-time capabilities. Organizations should align their…
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Model Commoditization: When AI Models Become Utilities
Commoditization is not a threat - it's an opportunity. As model costs approach zero, the winners will be those who use AI most effectively, not those with…
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AI Cost Trends: The Economics of Enterprise AI in 2024
AI costs are on a consistent downward trajectory. Plan for continuous cost reduction and reinvest savings into more sophisticated use cases.
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Platform Engineering Trends: Building Internal Data Platforms
Platform engineering is the pragmatic answer to scale: provide golden paths, self-service APIs and guardrails so teams move quickly without repeating…
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AI Trends to Watch in 2024
There are a few themes I'm watching closely for 2024 — practical agents, small-model efficiency gains, and tighter integration between data platforms and…
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2024 Predictions: The Year Ahead in AI and Data
Predictions are inherently risky, but after a year working closely with foundation models and platform teams, a few trends feel probable: larger context…
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Data Platform Evolution in 2022: Trends and Technologies
The convergence of data lakes and data warehouses became mainstream: Streaming data processing became more accessible: Organizations adopted data mesh…
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Azure in 2022: Six Bets I'm Making on New Year's Day
Six predictions for Azure in 2022, from Container Apps and Bicep registries to gated Azure OpenAI access, Purview, Arc data services and carbon reporting.
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Azure in 2021: Where I'd Place My Bets This Year
Five Azure bets for 2021 on Arc, Synapse, Purview, edge and security, with what was GA versus preview on 1 January and where I'd hold back.