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Gilbane Advisor 9-18-24 — o1 paradigm?, abductive reasoning

September 18, 2024 /

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 paradigm for AI

Alberto Romero provides a high-level yet in-depth explanation of OpenAI’s latest model that “reasons” and opines on what it means near and long-term. In spite of the presence of “paradigm” in the title, Romero does a nice job balancing enthusiasm and skepticism. A thoughtful read. (19 min)

https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/openai-o1-a-new-paradigm-for-ai

LLMs, faking, it and abductive reasoning

Tony Seale’s short post on three types of reasoning is good companion piece to Romero’s…

“A practical implementation of this [Ed.: abductive reasoning] might integrate the inductive curve-fitting capabilities of large language models with the formal inference mechanisms of knowledge graphs, creating a dynamic neural-symbolic loop.” (2 min – 9 including comments) 

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tonyseale_the-question-of-whether-large-language-models-activity-7237731298952302594-T0mN

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Cloudera adds Accelerators for Machine Learning Projects (AMPs)

AMPs are end-to-end machine learning (ML) based projects that can be deployed with a single-click directly from the Cloudera platform.
https://www.cloudera.com/about/news-and-blogs/press-releases/2024-09-12-cloudera-unveils-new-suite-of-accelerators-for-machine-learning-projects-amps.html

Adobe announces Adobe Express updates and special teams offer

New capabilities help SMBs create on-brand content across Marketing, HR and Sales accelerate content creation and work across teams.
https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/Adobe-Express-Updates-Deliver-More-Value-for-Solopreneurs-and-SMBs-with-Innovation-and-Special-Teams-Offer/default.aspx

Brightcove unveils Brightcove AI Suite

The Suite includes: AI Content Multiplier, AI Universal Translator, AI Metadata Optimizer, AI Engagement Maximizer, and AI Cost-to-Quality Optimizer.
https://campaigns.brightcove.com/ai-solutions/

SearchStax and Magnolia partner on personalized search solutions

Partnership helps marketers and developers by merging the search capabilities of SearchStax Site Search with Magnolia’s enterprise-grade DXP.
https://www.searchstax.com ■ https://www.magnolia-cms.com

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DeepL announces glossary generator

September 18, 2024 /

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 capabilities:

  • An AI-powered glossary generator: DeepL’s new glossary generator is a tool enabling teams to create custom translation glossaries with a simple file upload. Previously translated files can be leveraged to generate entries for personalized DeepL glossaries, reducing manual work and enhancing efficiency.
  • Expanded glossary language functionality: Glossary now supports Korean, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Romanian translations, bringing the total number of languages to 16.
  • More convenient access across DeepL platforms: Users can access and apply the glossary within the DeepL browser extensions for Chrome and Edge, enabling consistent translations across the web, including Google Workspace applications. The glossary can also be applied within DeepL for Microsoft 365 integrations, including Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint, and be accessed through DeepL’s web browser, desktop apps, and API.

DeepL’s glossary generator is now available to Pro Advanced and Ultimate subscribers with support for TMX/DOCX/PDF files.

https://www.deepl.com/en/translator

Brightspot announces latest version of their content management system

September 17, 2024 /

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:

  1. Smarter, faster, safer content creation with AI – Brightspot’s new AI features alleviate the frustrating search journey and content generation process. Customers can use AI to create content with AI governance tools with customizable permissions, AI tracking, and analytics. Brightspot also supports the creation of custom AI solutions.
  2. Breaking down silos between teams and tech – From automatic task creation in Asana to ticket generation in Jira whenever an action is triggered in the CMS, Brightspot connects workflows and business applications to orchestrate work across technical and non-technical users, and increase compatibility across your tech stack.
  3. Intuitive work environment for every type of user – The platform provides an easy-to-navigate interface that simplifies the process of creating and executing workflows.
  4. Flexible framework for your organization – Brightspot prioritizes extensibility, building out bespoke functions that have no dependency on development or coding capabilities to integrate AI or connect tech stacks that reflect their organization’s processes, and stimulate productivity across functions.

https://www.brightspot.com

Adobe Experience Cloud updates help personalize and measure AI-generated content

September 16, 2024 /

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 real time. Real-time experimentation capabilities on the web will direct visitors towards AI-generated variants that are driving the best conversion.

  • Adobe Content Analytics: Now in beta, Adobe Content Analytics within Customer Journey Analytics (CJA) provides attribute-level insights on content spanning platforms such as web and mobile. Users can bring these insights directly into CJA, providing a holistic view of the customer journey.
  • AI Assistant Content Accelerator in Adobe Journey Optimizer (AJO): Now generally available, AI Assistant Content Accelerator in AJO allows marketers to generate on-brand marketing assets for channels including email, SMS while having it optimized for certain target audiences based on language, tone and content type.
  • Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Edge Delivery Services, Self-Learning Experimentation: For AI-generated content variations, such as text or images on a web page, brands will be able to drive real-time experimentation with AEM Edge Delivery Services.

https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/Adobe-Unveils-Innovations-in-Adobe-Experience-Cloud-for-Brands-to-Personalize-and-Measure-AI-generated-Content/default.aspx

Brightcove unveils Brightcove AI Suite

September 12, 2024 /

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 Universal Translator, AI Metadata Optimizer, AI Engagement Maximizer, and AI Cost-to-Quality Optimizer. Brightcove is using models from Anthropic, AWS, and Google, and integrating AI solutions from CaptionHub and Frammer. Brightcove will initially focus on:

  • Content Creation: The AI Content Multiplier uses Gen AI to automate time-consuming tasks. The AI Universal Translator delivers translations across 130 languages with the ability to fine-tune.
  • Content Management and Optimization: will accelerate workflows and simplify managing content libraries, and turning them into a foundational data layer optimized for large language models (LLMs). AI Metadata Optimizer generates descriptions and transforms content into searchable and AI-optimizable data sets.
  • Content Engagement and Monetization: Brightcove AI Engagement Maximizer delivers automated video interactivity, personalization, and recommendations. AI Revenue Maximizer optimizes ad placements and durations.
  • Quality and Efficiency: AI Cost-to-Quality Optimizer drives down the cost of encoding, storage, and content delivery without sacrificing the viewer experience.

https://campaigns.brightcove.com/ai-solutions/

Adobe announces Adobe Express updates and special teams offer

September 12, 2024 /

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 commercially safe, so businesses can protect their brand and publish business content with confidence.

Adobe Express for teams offers the best of Adobe in an app every employee with any skill level can use to create on-brand social posts, flyers, videos, presentations and more. Adobe Express for teams includes thousands of distinctive templates curated by Adobe professionals and thousands of Adobe assets, including stock photos, videos, audio files and premium fonts. Businesses can make content even more eye-catching with animations and use AI to generate new images and remove backgrounds instantly. 

The new Adobe Express for Teams offer is available immediately for $49.99 per user per year guaranteed for up to three years with a two-seat minimum and includes a 90-day free trial with payment. The offer runs through Sept. 30, 2024. Adobe Express offers qualified 501(c)(3) nonprofits free access to premium features.

https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/Adobe-Express-Updates-Deliver-More-Value-for-Solopreneurs-and-SMBs-with-Innovation-and-Special-Teams-Offer/default.aspx

Cloudera adds Accelerators for Machine Learning Projects (AMPs)

September 12, 2024 /

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 (ML) based projects that can be deployed with a single-click directly from the Cloudera platform. Each AMP encapsulates industry practices for tackling complex ML challenges with workflows to facilitate seamless transitions. Cloudera AMPs are open source and include deployment instructions for any environment. Updates include:

  • Fine-Tuning Studio – Provides users with an all-encompassing application and “ecosystem” for managing, fine tuning, and evaluating LLMs.
  • RAG with Knowledge Graph – A demonstration of how to power a RAG (retrieval augmented generation) application with a knowledge graph to capture relationships and context not easily accessible by vector stores alone.
  • PromptBrew – Offers AI-powered assistance to create reliable prompts via a simple user interface.
  • Chat with Your Documents – Building upon the previous LLM Chatbot Augmented with Enterprise Data AMP, this accelerator enhances the responses of the LLM using context from an internal knowledge base created from the documents uploaded by the user.

https://www.cloudera.com/about/news-and-blogs/press-releases/2024-09-12-cloudera-unveils-new-suite-of-accelerators-for-machine-learning-projects-amps.html

Gilbane Advisor 9-11-24 — LLM Agents & Architectures, Reckoning…

September 11, 2024 /

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 the new types of LLM agents and architectures

“How can teams navigate the new frameworks and new agent directions? What tools are available, and which should you use to build your next application? As a leader at a company that recently built our own complex agent to act as a copilot within our product, we have some insights on this topic.”

Aparna Dhinakaran’s piece is a useful update with some good advice for developers, product architects, and business analysts. (10 min)

https://towardsdatascience.com/navigating-the-new-types-of-llm-agents-and-architectures-309382ce9f88

Reckoning: Part 1 — the landscape

Alex Russell’s passionate and detailed “… investigation into JavaScript-first frontend culture and how it broke US public services…” exposes the high cost cost and poor user experience of widely-deployed web services in general.

The focus on public services provides powerful examples, and his web technology experience combine for a compelling case. There are four parts to his investigation – links to the other three are included. Part 1 is (4 min).

https://infrequently.org/2024/08/the-landscape

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Anthropic announces Claude for Enterprise

Claude Enterprise includes an expanded 500K context window, more usage capacity, a native GitHub integration, and enterprise-grade security features.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-enterprise

Syncro Soft releases Oxygen AI Positron Assistant 3.0

The tool supports AI-generated content within Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer, Oxygen XML Web Author, and Oxygen Content Fusion.
https://www.oxygenxml.com/ai_positron_assistant.html

Elastic returns to open source license for Elasticsearch and Kibana

With the addition of AGPL, an open source license approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), Elasticsearch & Kibana will be officially considered open source.
https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-is-open-source-again

Helps streamline development of adaptive applications by enabling real-time data analysis alongside operational workloads in a single database platform.
https://www.couchbase.com/blog/free-tier-capella-columnar-mobile-vector-search-and-more/

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