Flux, a global decentralized technology company specializing in cloud infrastructure, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and decentralized storage, officially launched WordPress on its platform following a successful Beta phase that commenced in February 2023, making the most popular content management system (CMS), WordPress, accessible on Flux’s decentralized infrastructure. The backbone of this innovative offering lies in […]

This week we feature articles from Rachel Draelos, and César A. Hidalgo. Additional reading comes from Barr Moses, Paul Baier, David DeLallo, & John J. Sviokla, Jerry Liu, and Selvan Sunitha Ravi, Rebecca Qian, Anand Kannappan, & Clémentine Fourrier. News comes from Ontotext, Adobe, DataStax & LlamaIndex, and Acquia. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / […]

Algolia launched a new ‘Looking Similar’ capability as part of its AI Recommendations solution. Looking Similar is an AI model that analyzes images in a retailer’s catalog to find and recommend other items that are visually similar. This new image-based feature is easy to implement and configure, and can enhance conversion rates by providing shoppers […]

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This week we feature articles from Stefan Baack & Mozilla Insights, and Steve Jones. Additional reading comes from Daniel Tunkelang, Kate Moran, Louis Rosenberg, and Matt Marshall. News comes from Franz, Optimizely & Writer, Otter.ai, and Grammarly. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis Training data for the price of a sandwich It’s […]

DataStax announced its retrieval augmented generation (RAG) solution, RAGStack, is now generally available powered by LlamaIndex as an open source framework, in addition to LangChain. DataStax RAGStack for LlamaIndex also supports an integration (currently in public preview) with LlamaIndex’s LlamaParse, which gives developers using Astra DB an API to parse and transform complex PDFs into […]

Acquia announced new integrations for its digital asset management solution, Acquia DAM, that expand its brand management capabilities. These integrations — with Acquia Campaign Studio, Adobe Stock, and Google Translate reduce the complexity of maintaining a consistent brand experience across digital channels. Acquia DAM is now integrated with Acquia Campaign Studio, the company’s marketing automation […]

Adobe introduced AI Assistant in beta, a new generative AI-powered conversational engine in Reader and Acrobat. Integrated into Reader and Acrobat workflows, AI Assistant instantly generates summaries and insights from long documents, answers questions and formats information for sharing in emails, reports and presentations. AI Assistant leverages the same artificial intelligence and machine learning models […]

Ontotext, a provider of enterprise knowledge graph (EKG) technology and semantic database engines, announced the availability of Ontotext Metadata Studio (OMDS) 3.7, an all-in-one environment that facilitates the creation, evaluation, and quality improvement of text analytics services. This latest release provides out-of-the-box, rapid natural language processing (NLP) prototyping and development so organizations can iteratively create […]

Grammarly announced the general availability of its app actions feature for all business, individual, and education customers. App actions enable customers to complete actions in popular third-party applications wherever writing with Grammarly is happening, making it easier to get work done without wasting time switching between tools, so teams stay focused and efficient.  Grammarly is […]

This week we feature articles from Sanjeev Mohan & Merv Adrian, and Simon Wardley. Additional reading comes from Molly White, Cobus Greyling, Sissie Hsiao, Aleksandr Perevalov, Alan Morrison, and Michael Nuñez News comes from Apple, Google, Digimarc, and Bluesky. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis Dive deeper into Gartner’s 2023 cloud DBMS magic […]

Optimizely, a digital experience platform (DXP) provider, has announced that a new product integration with Writer, the enterprise-focused generative AI platform, is now live. The integration comes after the official partnership announcement in October and equips the Optimizely Content Marketing Platform (CMP) with AI capabilities that enable joint customers to use industry-specific LLMs to develop […]

Otter.ai, an AI-powered meeting assistant introduced Meeting GenAI, a set of AI tools that unlocks insights of your company’s meeting history. Otter is already integrating advanced GenAI across its platform, elevating the role of meeting minutes from passive records to dynamic repositories of collective knowledge and actionable insights. Highlights of Meeting GenAI:  The heart of Meeting […]

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via the Google Blog… Gemini represents our most capable family of models. To reflect this, Bard will now simply be known as Gemini. You can already chat with Gemini with our Pro 1.0 model and now, we’re bringing you two new experiences — Gemini Advanced and a mobile app — to help you easily collaborate […]

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Digimarc Corporation a provider of digital watermarking technologies, announced the availability of its next-generation digital watermarks featuring more advanced security and greater access control. Digimarc’s next-generation digital watermarks have also been optimized to efficiently address multiple use cases while simultaneously delivering pronounced improvements in both imperceptibility and performance. The latest improvements include: Advanced Security — Digimarc digital […]

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This week we feature articles from Chia Jeng Yang, and Antoine Vidal. Additional reading comes from AI2 Blog, Jarno van Driel, Anthony Alcaraz, and Manuel Faysse. News comes from Fivetran & dbt Labs, Mindbreeze & Ariza, Box, and Quark. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis Advanced RAG and the 3 types […]

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Via the Bluesky Blog… Bluesky is building an open social network where anyone can contribute, while still providing an easy-to-use experience for users. For the past year, we used invite codes to help us manage growth while we built features like moderation tooling, custom feeds, and more. Now, we’re ready for anyone to join. To […]

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via The Verge… Apple released an open-source AI model, called “MGIE,” that can edit images based on natural language instructions. MGIE (MLLM-Guided Image Editing), leverages multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to interpret user commands and perform pixel-level manipulations. The model can handle various editing aspects, such as Photoshop-style modification, global photo optimization, and local editing. […]

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Deepening its relationship with dbt Labs, Fivetran, provider of data integration, today announced its new orchestration integration with dbt Cloud, enabling enterprises to seamlessly manage data movement and transformations using the Fivetran platform. Now, with Fivetran as the hub, dbt Cloud transformations occur immediately and sequentially once data is loaded in a cloud data lake […]

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Mindbreeze, a provider of appliances and cloud services in the field of information insight, and Ariza Content Solutions have created a partnership to employ and enhance insights & search experiences and provide companies with content management. While traditional content workflows encompassed content creation, through management of editorial and production processes, to final publication and delivery […]

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