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Tech Moves: AWS community head departing; Pfizer exec joins Truveta board; UW Medicine names CEO

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Emily Freeman , head of community for Amazon Web Services , is departing. LinkedIn Photo) — William Johnson stepped down from Vancouver Tech Journal , which he founded in 2018. LinkedIn Photo) — Enterprise software company Freshworks hired Mika Yamamoto as chief marketing officer and chief customer officer.

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Tech Moves: Ex-Philips CEO joins Absci board; AWS exec departs; and more

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Absci began commercial operations in 2018. Amazon Web Services India and Southeast Asia President Puneet Chandok stepped down. During his tenure as CEO of Acumatica, Roskill led the enterprise cloud software startup, which was acquired by private equity firm EQT Group in 2019.

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Tableau Software CEO Mark Nelson steps down

GeekWire

. “Mark made tremendous contributions since joining Tableau in 2018, first leading the global Tableau product and engineering teams then taking on the role as CEO for the past 20 months,” Tableau spokesperson Tom Kim said in a statement. ” Nelson joined Tableau in 2018 as executive vice president of product development. .”

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Accenture buys supply chain firm to expand Oracle business

CIO Business Intelligence

The Accenture Oracle Business Group helps enterprises implement Oracle technologies such as the Oracle Autonomous Cloud, the human capital management (HCM) suite, the customer experience (CX) suite, and its ERP cloud. . In October 2018, it acquired DAZ systems along with its 300 employees to bolster its Oracle Cloud ERP services business.

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Seattle startup that helps companies protect their AI and machine learning code raises $35M

GeekWire

(Protect AI Photo) Seattle cybersecurity startup Protect AI landed $35 million to boost the rollout of its platform that helps enterprises shore up their machine learning code. It primarily sells to large enterprises in regulated industries including finance, healthcare, life sciences, energy, government, and tech.

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ChatGPT, the rise of generative AI

CIO Business Intelligence

ChatGPT was trained with 175 billion parameters; for comparison, GPT-2 was 1.5B (2019), Google’s LaMBDA was 137B (2021), and Google’s BERT was 0.3B (2018). Some examples are originating from Microsoft , Amazon Web Service , Google , IBM , and more, plus from partnerships among players.

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AWS Re:Invent Recap – Hybrid Cloud is Real. Even Amazon Says So.

The Investing Edge

At $27B in Q3 2018 run rate revenue, representing 46% year over year growth, and holding a 51% market share, Amazon Web Services has maintained and defended its dominant position in the public cloud. According to Gartner , the worldwide IaaS and PaaS revenues are projected to grow to $55B in 2018, with Amazon being the leader.

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