MongoDB, Inc. (MDB) Expands Partnership with Microsoft to Enhance AI Application Development and Data Analytics

We recently compiled a list of the 15 AI News Shaping Wall Street Today. In this article, we are going to take a look at where MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDB) stands against the other AI stocks that are shaping Wall Street today.

In recent news reported by Reuters, a U.S. congressional commission proposed a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AI systems that will be as smart, or even smarter, than humans. The proposition is amid the intensifying competition from China over advanced technologies.

“We’ve seen throughout history that countries that are first to exploit periods of rapid technological change can often cause shifts in the global balance of power. China is racing towards AGI … It’s critical that we take them extremely seriously”

– Jacob Helberg, a USCC commissioner told Reuters

Helberg, while recognizing that energy infrastructure is a significant bottleneck for training large AI models, suggests that streamlining the permitting process for data centers is one way of enabling a public-private partnership that could accelerate AI development.

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This news follows a rumor that artificial intelligence models are hitting a “wall”. Separate sources, including Reuters, The Information, and Bloomberg, have reported that companies such as OpenAI are failing in their next endeavors. Unnamed sources have claimed that OpenAI’s Orion is “so far not considered to be as big a step up from OpenAI’s existing models as GPT-4 was from GPT-3.5.”

However, OpenAI is pushing back on these rumors, stating that there is “no wall”. Despite having not reached a wall, analysts do admit that it’s possible to have reached a turning point.

“We haven’t seen a breakthrough model in a while. Part of it is that we’ve exhausted all the human data, and so just throwing more compute at the same data may not yield better results.”

– Gil Luria, managing director at investment group D.A. Davidson

Gary Marcus, NYU professor emeritus and outspoken critic of AI hype, has this to say:

“The economics are likely to be grim. LLMs will not disappear, even if improvements diminish, but the economics will likely never make sense…”

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MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDB)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 49

MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDB) provides a general-purpose database platform worldwide. It securely amalgamates operational, unstructured, and AI-related data to streamline building AI-enriched applications.

On Tuesday, November 19, MongoDB, Inc. (NASDAQ:MDB) announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft at the Microsoft Ignite conference. The partnership includes new integrations that enhance AI application development, real-time data analytics, and deployment flexibility. MongoDB Atlas, the company’s fully managed cloud database service, is now integrated into Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, enabling developers to easily develop AI applications. The second announcement is about MongoDB Atlas now supporting Open Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric for timely analytics and business intelligence. Meanwhile, the final announcement offers users the freedom to “deploy MongoDB their way” with MongoDB Enterprise Advanced on Azure Marketplace; granting deployment flexibility.

“By integrating MongoDB Atlas with Microsoft Azure’s powerful AI and data analytics tools, we empower our customers to build modern AI applications with unparalleled flexibility and efficiency”.

-Sandy Gupta, vice president of Partner Development ISV at Microsoft.

Overall MDB ranks 12th on our list of the AI stocks that are shaping Wall Street today. While we acknowledge the potential of MDB as an investment, our conviction lies in the belief that some AI stocks hold greater promise for delivering higher returns and doing so within a shorter timeframe. If you are looking for an AI stock that is more promising than MDB but that trades at less than 5 times its earnings, check out our report about the cheapest AI stock.

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Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.