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09.08.2024 By Christian Sefrin
Energy transition and Bitcoin mining: an efficient way to stabilise the grid?
The energy transition in Germany and Europe poses major challenges for the electricity grid, as renewable energies are dependent on the weather and lead to fluctuations in feed-in. In this blog post, I examine whether Bitcoin mining can help stabilise the grid as a flexible load by using times of energy surplus and shutting down quickly when needed.
Read more08.08.2024 By Christian Hammer and Jasper Rosenbaum
MedPrompt turns conventional language models into medical experts without a fine-tuning process
This blog post was written as part of the GenAI Solutioning Unit. In it, we show that there are various ways to specialise a language model on a domain-specific basis. This is important for advising our customers and is aimed at anyone interested in GenAI.
Read more07.08.2024 By Siver Rajab
Switching from PostgreSQL to Databricks: When does it make sense?
In modern data processing, companies are faced with the challenge of choosing the right database technology for their specific requirements. PostgreSQL and Databricks are two widely used solutions, each with their own strengths. In this blog post, I will highlight the differences between PostgreSQL and Databricks, analyse their respective advantages and disadvantages and give specific use cases that justify a switch to Databricks.
Read more06.08.2024 By Anastasiia Zhuravleva and Holger von Mallek
New requirements and expanded needs for apps and wearables in care
Demographic change is challenging the German care system. Politicians and associations are looking for funding models and technological progress is offering new care concepts. The aim is to use apps and wearables to improve the independence and quality of life of people in need of care and relieve the burden on relatives. We show how this works in our blog post.
Read more05.08.2024 By Christoph Clausius
From strategy to implementation: how a roadmap helps to implement digitalisation
In the manufacturing industry, there is often talk of digital transformation. This is intended to pave the way for Industry 4.0. The opportunities and potential benefits of digitalisation are well known. The question is: why is it still only making slow progress? I get to the bottom of this question in my blog post.
Read more01.08.2024 By Oliver Kling
AI security and compliance, why you should start now
Many companies are just starting out with their first prototypes in the area of large language models. It is a good idea to deal with regulatory and security issues at an early stage. What needs to be considered from the outset, what needs to be done during the course of the project and how can operations be set up securely and in compliance with regulations? Even if not all the details have been clarified in the regulatory area, for example, I would like to address these questions in this blog post.
Read more31.07.2024 By Matthias Zurth
Why digital production is essential for companies
Implementing digital production, IIoT, industrial metaverse and AI is often difficult. This blog series shows successful examples from various industries. In this blog post, I answer the questions of why digital production is important, what added value it offers and why implementation in production is often more complex than in other areas of the value chain.
Read more30.07.2024 By Sascha Windisch and Immo Weber
Efficiency through innovation: 10 principles for the use of generative AI in public administration
Generative AI, especially Large Language Models (LLM), have taken the IT world by storm since the introduction of ChatGPT at the end of 2023. The possibilities seem endless, whether as a chat assistant, for summarising texts, extracting knowledge or as a programming aid. Public administration has also recognised the potential of generative AI. In this blog post, we analyse the opportunities, challenges and risks of using generative AI in public administration based on ten theses.
Read more29.07.2024 By Sebastian Lang
Snowflake GenAI: Use data intelligently - Level Up your Data!
Snowflake has taken a late but big step in the field of generative AI (GenAI). With services such as the Snowpark Container Service, Snowflake Cortex and Snowflake's own Large Language Model (LLM) 'Arctic', Snowflake wants to secure its place in the world of generative AI. The second part of the blog post looks at these three services and the opportunities they offer (for companies).
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