Thinkster, an innovator at the intersection of AI and education, today announced the launch of its AI Coach — a voice-interactive, multilingual learning engine built on a patented platform designed to prioritize learning outcomes, explainability, and scalability, steering clear of generative gimmicks.
AlphaNeural, a next-generation AI infrastructure provider, announced the beta launch of its protocol-native platform — a unified ecosystem designed to empower developers and enterprises by enabling upload, trade, monetization, and direct deployment of AI models, agents, and datasets.
Apollo GraphQL, the leader in graph-based API orchestration, announced the Apollo MCP Server — a groundbreaking solution connecting graph APIs to AI models through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This innovation empowers developers to leverage GraphQL’s declarative power to build AI applications with seamless, secure, and efficient API access.
According to Frost & Sullivan’s 2024 global IT decision-maker survey, AI and data-centric strategies are dominating enterprise priorities. While 85% of leaders ranked data-centricity and AI capability as top goals, and over 50% noted AI as their biggest upcoming investment, challenges remain. Chief among them: siloed, heterogeneous data environments that hinder meaningful insight generation. As a result, the hybrid cloud storage market is rapidly evolving to meet these demands, enabling scalable, secure, and AI-ready data infrastructure.
Qlik®, a global leader in data integration, analytics, and AI, unveiled its new agentic AI experience at Qlik Connect® 2025. This breakthrough provides a conversational interface that allows users to naturally interact with data, empowering faster insights and decisions across enterprises.
PROS Holdings, Inc. , a leader in AI-powered SaaS pricing and selling solutions, announced the launch of PROS AI Agents at its Outperform with PROS 2025 conference. These innovative AI agents harness advanced natural language processing (NLP) and generative AI to enhance PROS Platform capabilities, enabling businesses to make faster, data-driven decisions and increase agility in dynamic markets.
Redpanda, the real-time data platform built for the agentic enterprise, today announced the appointment of Tyler Akidau as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Bringing over two decades of expertise in data streaming architecture, Akidau joins Redpanda from Snowflake, where he served as a distinguished software engineer, and Google, where he spent 12 years shaping foundational stream processing technologies.
Samaya AI, an expert artificial intelligence platform designed for financial services, announced a $43.5 million financing round led by NEA (New Enterprise Associates). The round attracted notable investors including Eric Schmidt, Yann LeCun, David Siegel, and Marty Chavez. Samaya’s advanced AI agents are tailored for complex financial workflows such as investment research, client advisory, and deal diligence, helping premier institutions like Morgan Stanley enhance their analytical capabilities.
Oriole Networks, a London-based photonic systems start-up, has announced PRISM — the world’s first pure photonic switched network tailored for data centers, high-performance computing (HPC), and distributed deep learning (DDL) workloads. By tackling network bottlenecks that limit AI training and inference performance, PRISM promises to revolutionize how large-scale AI infrastructure operates with higher throughput, lower latency, and reduced power consumption.
