Making GenAI Work with Your Data: Implementation Strategies for Enterprise-Grade Generative AI Systems
As enterprises transition from pilot projects to production-grade generative AI systems, robust architecture becomes essential. They must consider a range of factors: choosing the right model, ensuring scalability, security, observability, and governance at every layer of the stack. Below, we share a direct excerpt from Generative AI in Action by Amit Bahree (Manning, 2024), outlining […]
Scaling GenAI in Production: Best Practices and Pitfalls
As organizations move from experimentation to production-grade GenAI systems, traditional MLOps alone isn’t enough. Below, we share a direct excerpt from Generative AI in Action by Amit Bahree (Manning, 2024), covering key practices for LLMOps, monitoring, and deployment checklists. The following text is excerpted with permission. LLMOps and MLOps Machine learning operations (MLOps) apply DevOps […]
Level Up Your Python Workflow with Specialized Conda Environments
You’ve mastered Python basics and now you’re ready to level up your development workflow with specialized Jupyter Lab environments and industry-specific quick start environments that match how professionals work. This guide covers custom Jupyter setups, specialized environments, and the transition from simple base environment usage to sophisticated multi-environment workflows. Why Move Beyond the Base Environment […]
From Quick Start to Production: Building Deployable Environments with Anaconda Navigator
You’ve mastered creating specialized Jupyter environments and using quick start environments for rapid development. Now it’s time to take the next step: building a complete project workflow that goes from initial development with quick start environments to creating production-ready code you can confidently share and deploy. This guide walks through a complete real-world example, showing […]
Your First Steps with Python: Creating and Managing Development Environments
Starting your Python journey should be exciting, not frustrating. If you’re completely new to programming or coming from other tools like Excel, the prospect of “setting up a development environment” can feel daunting. The good news? With Anaconda Navigator, you can go from zero to coding in just a few minutes. This guide will walk […]
Intake: Parsing Data from Filenames and Paths
Motivation Do you have data in collections of files, where information is encoded both in the contents and the file/directory names? Perhaps something like ‘{year}/{month}/{day}/{site}/measurement.csv’? This is a very common problem for which people build custom code all the time. Intake provides a systematic way to declare that information in a concise spec. What is […]
The AI Governance Paradox
Why 82% of Companies Think They’re Secure — But Aren’t Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating at breakneck speed, creating both unprecedented opportunities and hidden challenges that every technology leader should understand. New research from Anaconda surveying over 300 AI practitioners and decision-makers reveals a critical gap between perception and reality: while 82% of organizations believe they have robust […]
Committing to the Advancement of AI with Open Source
When Travis Oliphant and I started Anaconda back in 2012, we had a simple but audacious vision: to transform the world of data analysis and business computing using Python and its powerful open source ecosystem. I’m proud to say that we’ve succeeded beyond our wildest dreams, as Python is now the most popular language for […]
Building AI-Powered Financial Services: Your Strategic Guide to Modern Tools and Platforms
The financial services landscape is experiencing an unprecedented transformation. By the end of 2025, most financial institutions will likely rely on AI to stay competitive, with 75% of banks with over $100 billion in assets expected to have fully integrated AI strategies. Yet beneath this momentum lies a complex web of challenges that directors of […]
Intel Mac Package Support: End of an Era
As Apple completes its transition to Apple Silicon and the broader Python ecosystem evolves, Anaconda is announcing the deprecation of Intel Mac (osx-64) package builds, effective August 15, 2025. What’s Changing Starting August 15, 2025, Anaconda will stop building new packages for Intel Mac computers (osx-64). This change affects users who are currently using Intel […]