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H2O.ai Launches New Multimodal Foundation Models to Tackle Document AI Use Cases What’s HOT 🔥 1/ 📰 Breaking news on VentureBeat - https://lnkd.in/gixYr7r2 2/ 🪨 H2O.ai vs Goliath - H2OVL Mississippi-0.8B beats all leading SLMs including Microsoft Phi-3 Vision and Google PaliGemma-3B-mix-448 on Text Recognition in OCRBench. 3/ 🥇 #1 SLM on Text Recognition - https://lnkd.in/gEKAZJdc 4/ 💪 - Our new, powerful OCR model is now integrated into Enterprise h2oGPTe Agentic RAG platform Mississippi is even outperforming bigger LLMs like InternVL2-26B that are 25x larger than our 0.8B model, delivering economic efficiency and ease of deployment for Document AI use cases. Now Available on Hugging Face: H2OVL Mississippi 2B - https://lnkd.in/g4SSqe26 H2OVL Mississippi 0.8B - https://lnkd.in/gbsRFPDU ➡️ Press release - https://lnkd.in/gb46fMTA  ➡️ Webpage - https://lnkd.in/gw-bP8i5 ➡️ Arxiv paper - https://lnkd.in/gidX9St2 #h2oai #documentAI #agenticAI #OCR #textAI #RAG #h2ovlmississippi

As part of our recent H2O GenAI World NY event, we hosted a competitive hackathon that challenged participants to transform synthetically generated medical notes into structured JSON. The competition was fierce, the challenges were tough, but one team came out on top: honey_bunny! 🏆 Congratulations to team Honey Bunny! Using a custom metric where the baseline scored 40%, this brilliant band of students from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur achieved an incredible 99%! 🚀 Meet the Hackathon Heroes on Kaggle: Archisman Bera - https://lnkd.in/gCi8-Sek Mannan Thakur - https://lnkd.in/gjfkkER2 Lavesh Kadam - https://lnkd.in/guZ6S9mC Rushikesh Khandetod - https://lnkd.in/g2AK4Gce With 114 participants downloading the dataset and 20 teams submitting solutions, this hackathon showcased the incredible talent and drive of the global AI community. ✨ Coming Soon: We will be sending team honey_bunny's H2O-branded North Face jackets. Be on the lookout! A huge thank you to everyone who joined the hackathon and helped make H2O GenAI World NY a success. Stay tuned for more highlights and future challenges from H2O.ai! #H2OGenAIWorld #HackathonWinners #AIInnovation #H2OHackathon #FutureOfAI

We are pleased to welcome Delphine Bernard as our new Chief Financial Officer at H2O.ai! 🌟 With over two decades of experience in the #technology sector, Delphine is an accomplished #CFO and seasoned board member, specializing in guiding hypergrowth technology companies from startup to public entity. She brings extensive experience across both startup and public company landscapes and will play a crucial role in driving H2O’s growth and long-term business success. Learn more about the announcement: https://lnkd.in/dqYm79zT

Thank you, Agus Sudjianto, for the great work with the Gen AI Model Validation workshop at #H2OGenAIWorld NY 👏🏼

🚀 That’s a wrap! A huge thank you to our incredible community, speakers, customers, and partners for making #H2OGenAIWorld NY an unforgettable experience! Your expertise, insights, and collaboration brought this event to life, spotlighting the power of generative AI in transforming industries and unveiling the latest innovations in the field. 👏 A special shoutout to our incredible Makers, whose dedication and innovation drives our mission to democratize #AI to everyone, everywhere. Also, we’re thrilled to have celebrated some of the trailblazers from the H2O AI 100 list on stage — visionaries shaping the future of #AI: Anusha Dandapani, Tanya Berger-Wolf, Deepesh Chandra, and Chintan Mehta. 🌟 Stay tuned for more, and let’s keep building the AI revolution together. #GenerativeAI #Innovation #Community #MakersGonnaMake

We're still buzzing from the excitement of #H2OGenAIWorld NY yesterday! The event was packed with inspiring keynotes, thought-provoking panels, and hands-on trainings that left us all energized and motivated. One of the highlights of the event was the opportunity to hear from our customers about the incredible impact they're making with H2O.ai. Hien Lam and Glib Martynenko from AT&T shared their groundbreaking work in the talk "Driving Telco Innovation: Distilling Large Models into Economical Small Language Models", and we were blown away by their results using H2O #Danube to scale, cut costs, increase efficiency and security in their #callcenter operations.  The overall stats are staggering: ✅ 75% latency improvement ✅ 500% scalability ✅ 70% of cost reduction We're thrilled to see our customers pushing the boundaries of what's possible with AI and thankful for having them share their success story with us! #H2OGenAIWorld #AI #Innovation #Telecommunications #GenAI

🌟 Meet Minds Behind the Models: Insights from Kaggle Grandmasters What happens when over 140 years of collective data science experience takes center stage? Insightful commentary, breakthrough ideas, and a roadmap toward the next 40 years of AI. At H2O GenAI World, our "Minds Behind the Models" session featured a panel stacked top-to-bottom with Kaggle Grandmasters (KGMs)— proven veterans who’re shaping AI's future. Moderated by Arno Candel (H2O.ai CTO and Big Data pioneer), the panel featured: 🔶 Mark Landry - Director, Data Science & Product at H2O.ai and BI & data warehousing leader. 🔶 Ryan Chesler - Principal Data Scientist at H2O.ai and Machine learning community builder. 🔶 Kim Montgomery - Principal Data Scientist at H2O.ai and champion of fairness and bias-free AI. 🔶 Guanshuo Xu - Principal Data Scientist at H2O.ai and expert in image processing and software engineering. 🔶 Shaikat Galib - Principal Data Scientist at H2O.ai and NLP and computer vision specialist. 🔶 Shanshan Wang - Senior Data Scientist at H2O.ai and innovator in ML and data visualization. 🔶 Branden Murray - Principal Data Scientist at H2O.ai and competitive Kaggle expert. KGMs are the gold standard in data science, solving real-world problems through competition, expertise, and constant innovation. 🙌 Thank You for Joining Us! We loved sharing this session with you. Check our feed for more event highlights and announcements in the coming days. #H2OGenAIWorld #KaggleGrandmasters #AIInnovation #DataScience

Breaking: h2oGPTe Agentic AI is here! 🚀 We’re excited to announce the industry-first convergence of #Predictive and #Generative AI in our enterprise #GenAI platform, #h2oGPTe. The new agentic capabilities enable h2oGPTe Agents to seamlessly integrate H2O.ai’s predictive AI models into autonomous workflows, ushering in a new era of operational efficiency and intelligent automation. "Multi-agent systems are the digital workforce of tomorrow, equipped not only to act but to adapt, collaborate, and evolve,” said Sri Satish Ambati. “Our pioneering work with agentic AI allows organizations to unlock the potential of converged predictive and generative intelligence—moving beyond automation to true transformation of enterprise workflows. It’s about amplifying human potential and democratizing AI, so every business can achieve exponential growth.” The news was announced today by our very own Arno Candel at #H2OGenAIWorld, who also demoed the capabilities of h2oGPTe and Agentic AI alongside Achraf Merzouki. Check out below VentureBeat's news on our latest announcement 👇 Learn more about #h2oGPTe: https://lnkd.in/ds5EWQna https://lnkd.in/ddRkgV4E

H2O.ai x Dell Technologies x NVIDIA = Affordable, Scalable AI 🚨Big News: H2O’s generative and predictive AI is now validated on the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA, delivering smarter, faster, and more cost-effective AI solutions right to your data center. The key takeaways: ➡ Enterprise agentic AI and multimodal RAG applications This offering provides autonomous agentic AI for multi-step workflows using multimodal RAG within h2oGPTe, allowing enterprises to deploy multi-agent systems out-of-the-box without the risk and complexity of building custom RAG applications. ➡ On-premises and air gapped AI Our validated solutions on the Dell AI Factory with NVIDIA ensure that sensitive data remains protected within enterprise boundaries. ➡ Significant Cost Savings By moving AI workloads from the cloud to on-premises through our services, enterprises can slash AI infrastructure costs by up to 3x, making AI more affordable and predictable. ➡ Accelerated Time to Value We embed enterprise multimodal RAG to deploy and scale a wide range of use case-driven AI applications. Check out the following links to learn more: Press release - https://lnkd.in/gPfrDUu6 Partner webpage - https://lnkd.in/eEKhKGW5 Dell and H2O.ai Whitepaper - https://lnkd.in/gDHsX_Y7 Dell and H2O.ai Solution Brief - https://lnkd.in/gwy-9PZN Dell Technologies AI Infohub - https://lnkd.in/gdQ4iEuY #GenerativeAI #AgenticAI #DellAIFactory #H2Oai #NVIDIA

We’re just one day away from making waves with #H2OGenAIWorld in New York! 🗽✨ Tomorrow, data scientists and AI business leaders come together to explore the latest advancements in predictive and generative AI. Morning features: ✔ Sri Satish Ambati, CEO and Founder of H2O.ai kicks off the event with a fireside chat featuring Dan Jermyn (Commonwealth Bank) ✔ Rob Parish (Dell Technologies): H2O on Dell AI Factory ✔ Arno Candel & Achraf Merzouki (H2O.ai): The latest in H2O innovations with Agentic AI and h2oGPTe ✔ Tanya Berger-Wolf Berger: AI for Nature: From Science to Impact ✔ AI in Finance Panel featuring Yu Yu (BlackRock), Kiran Yalavarthy (Wells Fargo), Krish Swamy (Citizens Bank), Rafic Fahs (Fifth Third Bank), moderated by Agus Sudjianto (H2O.ai) Afternoon Sessions: ✔ Real-world AI use cases in #Telco with AT&T’s Hien Lam, Glib Martynenko, and Farbod Tavakkoli ✔ Trainings and masterclasses from leading voices in AI, such as Mark Lochbihler, Karthik Kannappan, Sukanya J., Agus Sudjianto, YING LI, Srinivas Neppalli, Rahul Singh, Kim Montgomery, Ye(Alex) YU, and Jan Gamec. ✔ Panel on AI Solutions with Thomas Prendergast (PwC), Preeti Shivpuri (Deloitte), Chris Bowman (EY), Anusha Dandapani (UN International Computing) ✔ Fireside chat with Deepesh Chandra (Montefiore Health System) ✔ #KGM panel And more! Our event is currently sold-out, so if you're not able to join us tomorrow you can stay tuned for updates and highlights throughout the day! Check out the full agenda below: #AI #GenAI #Innovation