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Day: April 17, 2024
ThoughtSpot, an AI-powered analytics company, today announced a series of initiatives for developers and product builders to help their customers, partners, and employees with generative AI and embedded natural language search, including a new pricing edition, a Vercel Marketplace listing, support channels, and new courses and certifications.
ThoughtSpot has renamed the embedded solution, previously known as ThoughtSpot Everywhere to ThoughtSpot Embedded, reflecting ThoughtSpot’s vision to make analytics invisible – seamlessly embedded into every data application and user workflow – and its business outcomes visible. New features and offerings include:
- Developer Edition. The new Developer Edition offers developers exploring ThoughtSpot in free trial an opportunity to try ThoughtSpot Embedded capabilities with their specific use case for free for 12 months.
- Vercel Marketplace Integration. The new app listing for ThoughtSpot enables developers to quickly embed ThoughtSpot’s AI-powered analytics into their apps via the Vercel Marketplace.
- Discord Channel. Developers can ask ThoughtSpot Embedded subject matter experts technical questions and receive guidance in our Discord community.
- New ThoughtSpot Embedded Courses and Certifications. ThoughtSpot University is releasing a new paid certification for ThoughtSpot Embedded, the ThoughtSpot Embedded Developer. The new certification is for developers looking to attain formal recognition of their skills and knowledge in AI-Powered Analytics with ThoughtSpot Embedded.
This week we feature articles from Kurt Cagle, and Caleb Sponheim & Megan Brown.
Additional reading comes from Tom Krazit, Dean Allemang, and Andrew Zuo.
News comes from Progress Software, Adobe, Google Workspace, and MongoDB.
All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index
Opinion / Analysis
RAG, context and knowledge graphs
“These factors combine to make knowledge graphs powerful tools for managing large language models, while at the same time LLMs can be used to simplify the process of querying these databases.”
Kurt Cagle does a nice job describing the relative strengths and weaknesses of LLMs and knowledge graphs, and explaining why the combo is a worthy goal. (8 min)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/rag-context-knowledge-graphs-kurt-cagle-smvmc
AI UX-design tools are not ready for primetime: status update
We hear a lot about 2024 being the year of deploying AI applications in production environments, and while this is directionally correct, it is not clear how quickly this will happen, or exactly where it will be successful.
Caleb Sponheim and Megan Brown’s research finds that currently “designers use AI, just not for design”. We can expect to hear more statements of the form “X use AI, just not for X”. (6 min)
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ai-design-tools-not-ready
More Reading
- Follow up on LLMs and knowledge from last weeks issue… LLMs, knowledge graphs and property graphs via Dean Allemang
- Google Cloud’s Andi Gutmans: AI will run your databases while you sleep. All? via Runtime
- What is an AI PC? and When will the AI bubble burst? via Andrew Zuo
Content technology news
Progress releases Sitefinity 15.1
Introduces AI-powered conversion propensity scoring, content classification for faster content editing, and improved customer data modeling.
https://investors.progress.com/news-releases/news-release-details/progress-announces-advanced-ai-capabilities-accelerate-delivery
Adobe introduces Frame.io V4
Integrations with Photoshop and Workfront streamline collaboration for Enterprise’s Content Supply Chain; as part of Adobe GenStudio can be combined with Express and Firefly.
https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/Adobe-Introduces-Next-Generation-of-Frame.io-to-Accelerate-Content-Workflow-and-Collaboration-for-Every-Creative-Project/default.aspx
Google enhances Google Workspace
Google Vids, our new AI-powered video creation app for work, will sit alongside our other productivity tools like Docs, Sheets, and Slides.
https://workspace.google.com/blog/product-announcements/new-generative-ai-and-security-innovations
MongoDB expands collaboration with Google Cloud
Google Cloud Vertex AI extension for MongoDB Atlas and Spark integration with BigQuery simplifies building GenAI applications with proprietary data.
https://www.mongodb.com/press/mongo-db-expands-collaboration-with-google-cloud-at-google-next
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