Contextual AI, an enterprise RAG company, announced the general availability (GA) of the Contextual AI Platform, helping enterprises build specialized RAG agents to support expert knowledge work. While there is broad consensus that general-purpose AI agents are poised to streamline many generic tasks, Contextual AI believes that specialized RAG agents will instead be required to […]

dbt Labs, experts in analytics engineering, has acquired SDF Labs, the team of former Meta and Microsoft engineering leaders behind SDF, a data transformation technology. The acquisition will integrate SDF’s multi-dialect, dbt-native SQL comprehension capabilities into dbt, delivering improvements to dbt performance and enhancing the developer experience, efficiency, data velocity and data quality. the SDF […]

Foxit, a provider of PDF and eSignature products and services, helping knowledge workers to increase their productivity and do more with documents, announced the launch of Foxit AI, a standalone web-based AI platform that delivers document-centric AI capabilities to users across industries. Foxit AI offers a comprehensive suite of features, including AI-powered chat assistance, document […]

Contentstack, a composable digital experience platform (DXP) provider, today announced its acquisition of Lytics, a real-time customer data platform. The acquisition, which closed in December of 2024, brings comprehensive audience insights, content analytics and profile management to the Contentstack platform, unlocking real-time personalization for known and unknown users. Major global brands including Kraft Heinz, Mondelez, […]

This week we feature articles from Melanie Mitchell, and Maria Mouschoutzi. Additional reading comes from Chia Jeng Yang, Nilay Patel & Mustafa Suleyman, Kate Knibbs, and Sayash Kapoor & Arvind Narayanan, and Louie Peters. News comes from Graphlit, RWS, Brightcove, and Grammarly & Coda. Next issue arrives January 22. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis OpenAI’s o3 […]

Unstruk Data Inc, an AI software provider, introduced the Graphlit Agent Tools Library, now live on GitHub (github.com/graphlit/graphlit-tools-python). This new toolkit builds on Graphlit’s RAG-as-a-Service platform capabilities, enabling developers to rapidly build AI agents that streamline data handling and LLM-driven workflows. By eliminating infrastructure complexities, Graphlit positions itself as a comprehensive solution for organizations seeking to harness large […]

Brightcove, a streaming technology company, is sharing enhancements to its platform through strategic partnerships to enhance the video content creation, distribution and monetization, and to help customers build more cohesive, easy-to-deploy martech stacks. The relationship with Acquia is part of a broader initiative to co-sell and co-market integrated solutions that drive mutual customer success. For […]

Grammarly, an AI assistant, announced its intent to acquire productivity platform Coda. Coda’s CEO and Co-Founder Shishir Mehrotra will become the CEO of Grammarly. The addition of Coda’s AI tools and surfaces aims to transform Grammarly into an AI productivity platform for apps and agents where customers can unlock access to company knowledge, generative AI […]

RWS, a provider of technology-enabled language, content and intellectual property solutions, announced the availability of Tridion Sites 10.1. The latest version of RWS’s web content management platform includes several new features that enable more granular control and management of global content, multilingual marketing campaigns and digital experiences. New features include: New integrations and partnerships include TravelLaunch […]

This week we feature articles from Rita Kind-Envy, jreyesr, and Dharmesh Thakker, Danel Dayan, Jason Mendel, Sudhee Chilappagari, Patrick Hsu & Payal Modi. Additional reading comes from Giuseppe Futia, Joel Cunningham, Manuj Dhariwa & Shruti Dhariwal, and Aeree Cho, Grace C. Kim, Alexander Karpekov, Alec Helbling, Jay Wang, Seongmin Lee, Benjamin Hoover, & Polo Chau. News comes from […]

Brightcove launched Brightcove Marketing Studio for Sales, for global sales teams to easily create and deploy personalized video content. The video engagement platform gives companies control over brand and quality standards while providing unified measurement and insights across content and touch-points. Sales teams can create personalized video experiences for prospects and customers without needing video […]

Elastic a Search AI Company, announced its AI ecosystem to help enterprise developers accelerate building and deploying their Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. The Elastic AI Ecosystem provides developers with a curated, comprehensive set of AI technologies and tools integrated with the Elasticsearch vector database, designed to speed time-to-market, ROI delivery, and innovation. The Elastic […]

Snowflake announced its modern approach to bring transactional and analytical data together in a single, unified platform with Unistore. Unistore is powered by Hybrid Tables (now available on AWS), a table type that enables fast, high-concurrency point operations to support transactional workloads. With Unistore, customers can simplify their data architectures, while ensuring consistent security and […]

Box, Inc., an Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, announced a new set of AI-powered enhancements to advance how organizations manage content. Box AI, initially an AI assistant that could answer questions or generate content, has evolved into Box AI Studio, a platform enabling enterprises to apply AI to complex use cases. Box customers can now […]

This week we feature articles from Rafe Brena, and Benjamin Brooks.  Additional reading comes from Jenna Ahart, Astasia Myers, Van Chien Nguyen et al, and Joan Westenberg. News comes from OpenAI, Coveo & Shopify, DataStax, and Salesforce. Our next issue will arrive November 20. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis Agents are coming back from […]

Coveo, an enterprise AI platform that brings AI Search and generative AI to every point–of-experience, announced they have partnered with Shopify to bring its commerce AI capabilities to Shopify enterprise customers. Coveo will give Shopify enterprise merchants the ability to manage AI models and strategies for search relevance and semantic precision, personalization, recommendations and generative […]

ChatGPT can now search the web so you can get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources, which you previously needed to go to a search engine for. This blends the benefits of a natural language interface with the value of up-to-date sports scores, news, stock quotes. Chats now include links to sources, […]

This week we feature articles from Melanie Mitchell, and David Weinberger.  Additional reading comes from Chris Messina, David Haber, Chance Miller, and Michael Parekh. News comes from Semantic Web Company & Ontotext, Perplexity, Acquia, and Sitecore. Our next issue will arrive November 6. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis The LLM reasoning debate heats up Three recent papers examine […]

DataStax, a AI platform, announced the enhancement of its GitHub Copilot extension with its AI Platform-as-a-Service (AI PaaS) solution. This extension makes it easier for developers to directly interact with DataStax Langflow and their Astra DB databases’ vector, tabular, and streaming data right from their IDE (integrated development environment) through the DataStax GitHub Copilot Extension.  […]

Salesforce, a CRM (customer relationship management) provider, announced the general availability of Agentforce, a new layer on the Salesforce Platform that enables companies to build and deploy AI agents that can autonomously take action across business functions. Agentforce uses reasoning abilities to make decisions and take action, like resolving customer cases, qualifying sales leads, and […]