Cohere's Model Vault now encrypts AI inference so even Cohere cannot see enterprise customers' data
Cohere plans on making the full serving stack used in Model Vault open source so that independent auditors will be able to validate that it doesn't log, export, or leak data.
Sean Michael Kerner
Every user, device and agent gets its own table in KeewanoDB, and queries never join across them
Keewano says the reason agents cannot explain why something happened is that the sequence was taken apart before they ever queried it.
Sean Michael Kerner
OpenAI's new data agent skips the one thing rivals like Databricks are racing to publish: a benchmark
Businesses used to need a data analyst just to get an answer from their own data. OpenAI says its new ChatGPT Work agent ends that.
Sean Michael Kerner
Databricks-trained AI agents match Claude and GPT-5.6 Luna's answer quality — in half the time
Instead of running every query through the same fixed number of search steps, Databricks trained a model to decide on its own — cutting wasted search time without losing accuracy.
Sean Michael Kerner
GitHub’s HydraFusion cuts AI coding costs in every benchmark. It only matches quality in one.
The vendor's benchmark table doesn't fully back its own quality claims — and it's not the only AI company selling that story.
Sean Michael Kerner
Cohere Parse 5 loses the benchmark on points. It wins on cost per page.
Cohere's Parse 5 model balances cost and structure, offering $1.50 per 1,000 pages for efficient document parsing without sacrificing essential layout.
Sean Michael Kerner
Enterprises are overpaying for simple AI queries — Snowflake's gateway now auto-routes to cut costs up to 3x
A smaller model tries the task first and calls in a bigger one only if it can't finish the job — that's how Snowflake's new routing feature decides.
Sean Michael Kerner
Enterprises with AI context layers report agent failures at more than twice the rate of those without one
A governed context layer is supposed to stop AI agents from confidently getting things wrong. New VB Pulse research shows the opposite: it's what makes the failure visible.
Sean Michael Kerner
Nvidia's Switchyard router reshuffles AI models mid-task, cutting task costs to a third in its own tests
Nvidia is betting the real fix for AI agent costs isn't a cheaper model or a smarter router alone, but owning both under one open license.
Sean Michael Kerner
Tencent's Team Memory shares AI agent memory across a team — with no governance yet for when it's wrong
Most AI agent memory tools so far help one agent remember more in one session. Tencent's Team Memory is built for a whole team to share the same context — and inherit the same mistakes.
Sean Michael Kerner
57% of enterprises traced a wrong AI answer to missing business context — Credible bets portable, open-source semantic code beats proprietary metadata
Credible's platform runs on Malloy, an open-source semantic language built at Google — designed so enterprises can take their AI context with them, no matter what they buy next.
Sean Michael Kerner
Stop adding more GPUs: Weka's new storage platform reduces load by caching 100% of an AI model's pre-calculated tokens
As context windows and multi-turn interactions grow, so does the GPU compute wasted recalculating work a model has already done. Augmented Memory Grid, a NeuralMesh 6 feature built specifically for this, is Weka's answer.
Sean Michael Kerner