Optimizely, a digital experience platform (DXP) provider and experimentation platform, announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the warehouse native analytics platform NetSpring. With this acquisition, Optimizely’s DXP will provide “warehouse native” analytics, enabling customers to tie experimentation and other digital experience?activities to business metrics and outcomes that resides?in customers’ data?warehouses. Experimentation teams […]

The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) announced the launch of Molmo, a family of state-of-the-art multimodal models. This family includes our best Molmo model, closing the gap between close and open models, an open, efficient, and powerful multimodal model. Currently, most advanced multimodal models can perceive the world and communicate with us, Molmo goes beyond […]

This week we feature articles from Amanda Kau, and Sayash Kapoor & Arvind Narayanan. Additional reading comes from Ben Dickson, Fulala Fulalasen, Cassie Kozyrkov, and Paul Sawers. News comes from Brightspot, Adobe, Hubspot, and DeepL. Our next issue will arrive October  2. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis Can AI automate computational […]

Contentstack, a composable digital experience platform (DXP) and Enterprise Headless CMS, announced native visual building capabilities to its platform. Visual Builder’s experience-building capabilities accelerate workflows for marketers. Marketers can now see their work, present and future, in a headless environment. With Contentstack, teams can now natively visualize: As more organizations adopt Headless CMS technology and […]

Salesforce has signed an agreement to acquire Zoomin, a data management provider for unstructured data. Salesforce Data Cloud, with Zoomin’s capabilities, will accelerate the unlocking of unstructured data to power AI agents, making them more personalized and context-aware in every customer interaction. With this, Salesforce’s Agentforce will gain new levels of intelligence, enabling customers to […]

MindsDB announced the launch of Minds, a turnkey, private conversational AI designed to reason and orchestrate across real-time and historical enterprise data to answer questions for AI applications and agents. With Minds, developers can move from prototyping to building production-ready AI applications in weeks, without requiring specialized AI expertise. These applications can reason and understand user requests […]

HubSpot launched Breeze, its embedded AI with new Copilot and Agents; Breeze Intelligence for data enrichment; and updates to Marketing Hub and Content Hub. Featured releases: https://www.hubspot.com/company-news/fall24-spotlight

This week we feature articles from Alberto Romero, and Tony Seale Additional reading comes from Mike Knoop, Emma Roth, Frederic Lardinois, and Michael Nuñez. News comes from Cloudera, Adobe, Brightcove, and SearchStax & Magnolia. Our next issue will arrive September 25. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis OpenAI o1: A new […]

DeepL, a global Language AI company, announced updates to its glossary feature, which is a tool that enhances translation consistency and accuracy by enabling professionals and companies to personalize translations for specific terms. The tool now offers a smart glossary generator, which helps simplify and speed up the process of creating glossaries for translations. Expanded […]

Brightspot, a content management platform, debuted its latest version. With tech stack integrations and AI features that speed up creation time the latest version streamlines content workflows. Brightspot aims to transform the way organizations create content, and the way content creation impacts organizations. Capabilities include: https://www.brightspot.com

Adobe announced innovations across Adobe Experience Cloud to help brands unlock value with AI-generated content and demonstrate business impact by matching AI-generated content with customer preferences, while creating a feedback loop through actionable insights. These AI innovations address pain points in brands’ content supply chains by ensuring that campaigns can be adjusted and optimized in […]

Brightcove, a streaming technology company, announced the introduction of the Brightcove AI Suite. The new AI-powered capabilities will address growth-driving and cost-saving needs, including content creation, audience growth and engagement, increased revenue, and improved business efficiency.  Brightcove AI Suite integrates into Brightcove’s video cloud platform and launches with five AI-powered solutions: AI Content Multiplier, AI […]

Adobe announced new innovations in Adobe Express, which brings Adobe’s creative tools into an app that’s easy for smaller businesses to leverage across teams to create content. Adobe AI features in Adobe Express are built into workflows not bolted on as an upsell. Adobe Firefly generative AI-powered features in Adobe Express are designed to be […]

Cloudera, a hybrid platform for data, analytics and AI, announced new Accelerators for ML Projects (AMPs), designed to reduce time-to-value for enterprise AI use cases. The new additions focus on providing enterprises with cutting-edge AI techniques and examples within Cloudera that can assist AI integration and drive more impactful results. AMPs are end-to-end machine learning […]

This week we feature articles from Aparna Dhinakaran, and Alex Russell. Additional reading comes from Dries Buytaert, Bob DuCharme, Heather Hedden, and Kenrick Cai, Krystal Hu & Anna Tong. News comes from Syncro Soft, Anthropic, Elastic, and Couchbase. Our next issue will arrive September 18th. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis Navigating […]

SearchStax, a Search Experience Company, and Magnolia, a composable digital experience platform (DXP), announced a technology partnership to help marketing teams to deliver modern, personalized search experiences while driving marketing agility. This strategic partnership merges the search capabilities of SearchStax Site Search with Magnolia’s flexible, enterprise-grade DXP, offering marketers and developers the tools they need to create next-level […]

Version 3.0 increases the efficiency of using the tool as certain actions now leverage the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) process to obtain context from the users’ current projects. The new AI Positron Assistant drop-down widget offers a convenient way of accessing useful AI actions by displaying a floating contextual menu directly within the editing area. Users […]

Anthropic announced the Claude Enterprise plan to help organizations securely collaborate with Claude using internal knowledge. The Claude Enterprise plan offers an expanded 500K context window, more usage capacity, and a native GitHub integration so you can work on entire codebases with Claude. It also includes enterprise-grade security features—like SSO, role-based permissions, and admin tooling—that […]

Couchbase, Inc. launched Capella Columnar on AWS, to help organizations streamline the development of adaptive applications by enabling real-time data analysis alongside operational workloads within a single database platform. Also generally available today is Couchbase Mobile with vector search, which makes it possible for customers to offer similarity and hybrid search in their applications on […]

Elastic, a Search AI Company, announced that it is adding the GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL) as an option for users to license the free part of the Elasticsearch and Kibana source code that is available under Server Side Public License 1.0 (SSPL 1.0) and Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2). With the addition of AGPL, an […]