Enterprise data management and knowledge graph company Stardog, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, has been ahead of the curve since its start in 2006: even back then, founder and CEO Kendall Clark knew 21st century businesses would be defined by their data — and that digitizing it and making it accessible instantly, on demand, was going to be a huge market.
The company has raised $40 million in funding to date and counts US government agencies including NASA and the Department of Defense, as well as large enterprises Raytheon and Bosch, among its customers. And as the generative AI era has kicked into high gear, Stardog’s services have only come into greater demand.
A new device for a new era
Now, the company is launching Karaoke, an innovative on-premises server designed with partners Nvidia and Supermicro that hosts Stardog’s Voicebox Large Language Model (LLM) platform, a custom enterprise-grade fine-tuned Llama 2 variant publicly unveiled in October 2023 that allows users without any technical training to type natural language queries into Stardog Cloud on their computers and have their questions answered with their own company’s structured data.
“We’re talking about a big bank, a manufacturer, a pharmaceutical, who is regulated and therefore can’t easily, or maybe can’t ever, move all their data to the cloud,” said Clark in a voice call interview with VentureBeat. “All these businesses need Gen AI, but most Gen AI is in the cloud. Karaoke is designed to step into that gap and effectively bring the cloud to you, put it adjacent to your data, and then give you the benefits of this democratized, self-serve data access.”
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