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Gilbane Advisor 10-15-25 — AI UI & intent, AI app spending

October 15, 2025 /

This week we feature articles from Sharang Sharma, and Justine & Olivia Moore, Marc Andrusko & Seema Amble.

Additional reading comes from Dharmesh Shah, Heiko Hotz, Bob DuCharme, and Sainath Palla.

News comes from TileDB, Grafana Labs, commercetools, and Google.

All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index

Opinion / Analysis

How can AI UI capture intent?

Exploring contextual prompt patterns that capture user intent as it is typed

“AI interfaces become truly intelligent when they anticipate rather than react. Instead of waiting for users to articulate perfect prompts, contextual UI patterns can surface intent naturally whether through adaptive presets for file uploads, dynamic refinement chips for search, or inline tone controls for content creation. Users spend less time explaining what they want and more time refining the results that matter.”

Sharang Sharma shares some appealing examples of what such UI’s could look like. (5 min)

https://uxdesign.cc/how-can-ai-ui-capture-intent-d7a6d0393ded

The AI Application Spending Report

Where startup dollars really go

Enterprise AI application spending is growing rapidly and is where future growth and open-ended opportunity is headed as AI infrastructure capex and foundation model development begin to plateau.

a16z’s Justine & Olivia Moore, Marc Andrusko, and Seema Amble found some patterns early enterprise AI applications, and identified 50 AI-native application layer companies already in the market. (9 min)

https://a16zenterprise.substack.com/p/the-ai-application-spending-report

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Google announces Gemini Enterprise

The new front door for Google AI in your workplace, Gemini Enterprise is an AI-powered conversational platform designed to bring Google AI to every employee for every workflow.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/introducing-gemini-enterprise

commercetools previews Cora

The AI-native shopping companion for conversational commerce shows how enterprises will be able to deliver human-like continuity across every channel.
https://commercetools.com/press-releases/commercetools-previews-cora

TileDB launches Carrara, an omnimodal data intelligence platform

Carrara can discover, access, and analyze all data types, from structured tables to non-tabular data such as genomics, imaging, documents, models, and agents.
https://www.tiledb.com/blog/introducing-carrara

Grafana Labs releases Grafana Assistant

New AI-powered capabilities accelerate root cause analysis, reduce alert fatigue, and make observability accessible to users at all skill levels.
https://grafana.com/about/press/2025/10/08/grafana-labs-revolutionizes-ai-powered-observability-with-ga-of-grafana-assistant-and-introduces-assistant-investigations/

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Google announces Gemini Enterprise

October 9, 2025 /

From the Google Products Blog…

AI has opened up new opportunities in the cloud market — and today, we announced our next chapter with Gemini Enterprise. Gemini Enterprise is designed on the premise that true business transformation in the era of AI must go beyond simple chatbots. You need a comprehensive and integrated platform that brings all your company’s data, tools, and people together in one secure place.

That’s exactly what we’ve built. Gemini Enterprise is an AI-powered conversational platform designed to bring the full power of Google AI to every employee for every workflow.

Built with Google’s most advanced Gemini models, it enables you to chat with your company’s documents, data, and applications. It also gives you the tools to build and deploy AI agents, as well as a suite of pre-built agents, and is grounded in your company’s information and your personal context at work.

Delivering this level of transformation requires a commitment to upskilling your teams. So today, we are announcing a comprehensive set of programs to help you succeed, including free Google Skills training, and the Gemini Enterprise Agent Ready (GEAR) program.

Gemini Enterprise: The new front door for Google AI in your workplace

commercetools Previews Cora

October 8, 2025 /

commercetools, an AI-first commerce platform for enterprises, announced a preview of commercetools Cora, an AI-native and multimodal shopping companion designed to demonstrate the future of conversational commerce. Cora shows how enterprises will be able to deliver human-like continuity across web, mobile, WhatsApp, and other channels. Shoppers can begin a journey on one device and continue it on another without losing context or progress. Cora maintains continuity and gives enterprises a branded companion they fully control.

Cora gives enterprises the practical tools to build loyalty and reduce drop-off by keeping every shopping journey connected. Key capabilities in the first phase of its launch include:

  • AI-First Product Discovery: Conversational search that understands vague requests (i.e., long queries) and translates them into relevant recommendations.
  • Omnichannel Continuity: Preserves context, cart state, and conversation history across all channels and devices.
  • Brand-Controlled Experience: Keeps shoppers inside a retailer’s ecosystem, ensuring that every interaction reflects the brand’s identity and builds lasting trust.

Cora is also fully white-labeled, allowing retailers to customize and brand the experience while relying on commercetools’ enterprise-grade security, governance, and data controls.

Cora will debut with AI-powered product search and launch in phases toward full agentic capabilities, including autonomous checkout.

https://commercetools.com/press-releases/commercetools-previews-cora

Grafana Labs releases Grafana Assistant

October 8, 2025 /

Grafana Labs announced the general availability of Grafana Assistant, a context-aware AI agent built for Grafana, along with the public preview of Grafana Assistant Investigations, an AI-powered feature that extends Grafana Assistant to accelerate multi-step incident investigations. New and enhanced capabilities include:

  • Query generation without deep syntax knowledge: Automatically generate and refine queries in PromQL, LogQL, and TraceQL based on plain-language prompts.
  • Organizational value unlock: Self-service access for non-observability teams reduces dependency on stretched SREs.
  • In‑context onboarding and learning support: Access contextual help, explanations, and “what to try next” guidance directly within Grafana.
  • Enterprise-ready access controls: Building on existing RBAC in Grafana Cloud, Grafana Assistant now offers Assistant-specific roles and permissions. Admins can configure access to features such as rules, Assistant Investigations, and MCP server management at a granular level, ensuring teams can align observability workflows with enterprise security and compliance requirements.

Assistant Investigations, available in public preview, builds on Grafana Assistant by acting as an autonomous agent for incident response. It analyzes the observability stack, generates findings and hypotheses, and provides actionable recommendations for mitigation and remediation. Fully integrated with Grafana Assistant, Assistant Investigations creates a seamless guided workflow for resolving complex incidents.

https://grafana.com/about/press/2025/10/08/grafana-labs-revolutionizes-ai-powered-observability-with-ga-of-grafana-assistant-and-introduces-assistant-investigations

TileDB launches Carrara, an omnimodal data intelligence platform

October 7, 2025 /

TileDB announced controlled availability of TileDB Carrara, an omnimodal data intelligence platform addressing the inability to discover, access, and analyze all data types, from structured tables to non-tabular data such as genomics, imaging, documents, models, agents, in a unified, governed environment.

TileDB Carrara treats all data as “modalities”—reachable, shareable data or code assets with inherent structure and domain-specific semantics. Whether population variants, bioimaging, PDF documents, Jupyter notebooks, user-defined functions, or external tables from existing data warehouses, assets become discoverable, and queryable.

This release of TileDB Carrara supports:

  1. Organization: A unified catalog for registering and searching across all modalities, supporting rich metadata filters and LLM-powered discovery
  2. Structuring: Leveraging TileDB’s shape-shifting array technology to efficiently capture any complex data type, optimized for cloud storage backends
  3. Collaboration: Teamspaces that function as secure data products, enabling users to create, share, and audit access to diverse assets within data clean rooms
  4. Analyze: An infrastructure for massively distributed computations, workflows, notebooks, and dashboards that manages all the data. 

While Carrara’s omnimodal architecture serves enterprises across sectors, its impact is particularly useful in life sciences and healthcare, where the integration of multimodal data (genomics, proteomics, clinical imaging, electronic health records, and sensor data) is essential.

https://www.tiledb.com/blog/introducing-carrara

Gilbane Advisor 10-1-25 — KM & biotech, peak modeI

October 1, 2025 /

This week we feature articles from Mark Burgess, and Steve Jones.

Additional reading comes from Rachel Stephens, Joel Urena, Jenna Kim, Kenneth Ofosu, Shaka Clark, Raven Adaramola & Dylan Campbell, and Horace He.

News comes from Microsoft, Google, Markup AI, and Market Logic.

Our next issue arrives October 15.

All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index

Opinion / Analysis

Avoiding the ontology trap: How biotech shows us how to link knowledge spaces

Unsupervised learning for humans, from bottom-up networks to namespaces

Ontologies and taxonomies help organize information, but can be difficult to create, and extremely hard to manage over time. They also work by constraining information. Mark Burgess argues that neuroscience and biotech offer both a more liberating and accurate — though no less difficult — approach to understanding and representing knowledge spaces and their interactions. A rewarding read. (14 min)

https://mark-burgess-oslo-mb.medium.com/avoiding-the-ontology-trap-how-biotech-shows-us-how-to-link-knowledge-spaces-654bcbb9122a

We’ve reached peak model — for enterprises

“The models of today are already over-powered for most of the challenges in a business, the challenge lies not in the complexity of the models, but in the paucity of description for how a business a works, what it data means and what success looks like, in a way that AI can actually consume.” Steve Jones illustrates with a practical test. (6 min)

https://blog.metamirror.io/weve-reached-peak-model-for-enterprises-f58f4e3ed9cb

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Microsoft adds Anthropic model options for 365 Copilot

Copilot will continue to be powered by OpenAI’s latest models, and now customers will have the flexibility to use Anthropic models Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 too.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/09/24/expanding-model-choice-in-microsoft-365-copilot/

Google announces 10 new AI features for Chrome

Gemini in Chrome is now rolling out for Mac and Windows desktop users in the U.S., and soon to businesses with enterprise-grade data protections and controls.
https://blog.google/products/chrome/chrome-reimagined-with-ai/

Market Logic launches DeepSights Persona Agents

DeepSights Persona Agents enable real-time, natural language interactions to allow marketing, insights, and product teams to explore and test ideas.
https://marketlogicsoftware.com/news/2025/market-logic-launches-persona-agents-a-breakthrough-in-ai-powered-customer-insight/

Introducing Markup AI: An enterprise content guardian agent

The AI-native platform delivers guardrails for scaling AI-generated content with scan, score, rewrite capabilities, deterministic trust scores, developer API and MCP architecture.
https://markup.ai/blog/introducing-markup-ai-your-enterprise-content-guardian/

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Microsoft adds Anthropic model options for 365 Copilot

September 24, 2025 /

From the Microsoft 365 Blog…

Copilot will continue to be powered by OpenAI’s latest models, and now our customers will have the flexibility to use Anthropic models Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 too — starting in Researcher or when building agents in Microsoft Copilot Studio.

Here’s how Anthropic models are showing up in Microsoft 365 Copilot starting today:

  • Researcher agent: Our reasoning agent can now be powered by either OpenAI’s deep reasoning models or Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1. Whether you’re building a detailed go-to-market strategy, analyzing emerging product trends, or creating a comprehensive quarterly report, you can now select your preferred model to power in-depth work.
  • Copilot Studio: Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4.1 models are now available as model options in Copilot Studio, enabling you to easily create and customize enterprise-grade agents. With this launch, you can build, orchestrate, and manage agents powered by Anthropic models for deep reasoning, workflow automation, and flexible agentic tasks. And with multi-agent systems and prompt tools in Copilot Studio, you can mix which models are used for specialized tasks from Anthropic, OpenAI, or any of the models in the Azure Model Catalog.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/09/24/expanding-model-choice-in-microsoft-365-copilot/

Google announces 10 new AI features for Chrome

September 18, 2025 /

From the Google Products Blog…

Today we share how we’re using the latest in Google AI to enhance your browsing experience. We’re building Google AI into Chrome across multiple levels so it can better anticipate your needs, help you understand more complex information and make you more productive when you browse the web:

1. Enhance your browsing with Gemini in Chrome

Starting today, we’re rolling out Gemini in Chrome to Mac and Windows desktop users in the U.S. with their language set to English, so you can ask Gemini to clarify complex information on any webpage (or webpages) you’re reading. It’ll be available to businesses in the coming weeks via Google Workspace with enterprise-grade data protections and controls. And we’re also bringing Gemini in Chrome to mobile in the U.S.

2. Get ready for your agentic browsing assistant

In the coming months, we’ll be introducing agentic capabilities to Gemini in Chrome. These will let Gemini in Chrome handle those tedious tasks that take up so much of your time, like booking a haircut or ordering your weekly groceries.

3. Make better sense of all your tabs

Gemini in Chrome can now work across multiple tabs, so you can quickly compare and summarize information across multiple websites to find what you need.

4. Find webpages you previously visited

For those frustrating instances when you want to jump back into a past project but don’t want to scroll through your history to find an important website you previously visited, soon you’ll be able to use Gemini in Chrome to recall it for you.

5. Work with your Google apps without changing tabs

We’ve also built a deeper integration between Gemini in Chrome and your favorite Google apps, like Calendar, YouTube and Maps, so you can schedule meetings, see location details and more without leaving the page you’re on.

6. Search with AI Mode right from the omnibox

You’ll have the option to quickly access Google Search’s AI Mode right from the Chrome address bar (what we call the omnibox) on your computer.

7. Ask questions and learn more about your current page

You can ask questions about the entire page you’re on right from the omnibox. Chrome can suggest relevant questions based on the context of the page to help you kickstart your search.

8. Combat more sophisticated scams with Gemini Nano

Safe Browsing’s Enhanced Protection mode already uses Gemini Nano to help identify tech support scams that try to trick you into downloading harmful software. Soon, we’ll be expanding this protection to also stop sites that use fake viruses or fake giveaways to trick you.

9. Say goodbye to dodgy notifications and unwanted permissions

Chrome now detects potentially spammy or scammy notifications and gives you the option of seeing them or unsubscribing. Since rolling out this feature, we’ve reduced unwanted website notifications for Chrome on Android users by around 3 billion each day.

10. Change compromised passwords in 1-step

Chrome already automatically and securely fills in your login credentials and proactively alerts you if any of your passwords are compromised. Very soon it’ll use AI as a password agent to go a step further, letting you change your saved passwords with a single click on supported sites.

https://blog.google/products/chrome/new-ai-features-for-chrome

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