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Microsoft introduces Bing generative search

July 24, 2024 / NewsShark

From The Microsoft Bing Blog…

… Today, we’re excited to share an early view of our new generative search experience which is currently shipping to a small percentage of user queries …

This new experience combines the foundation of Bing’s search results with the power of large and small language models (LLMs and SLMs). It understands the search query, reviews millions of sources of information, dynamically matches content, and generates search results in a new AI-generated layout to fulfill the intent of the user’s query more effectively.

We’ve refined our methods to optimize accuracy in Bing, applying those insights as we continue to evolve our use of LLMs in search. We are continuing to look closely at how generative search impacts traffic to publishers. Early data indicates that this experience maintains the number of clicks to websites and supports a healthy web ecosystem. The generative search experience is designed with this in mind, including retaining traditional search results and increasing the number of clickable links, like the references in the results.

We are slowly rolling this out and will take our time, garner feedback, test and learn, and work to create a great experience before making this more broadly available.

https://blogs.bing.com/search/July-2024/generativesearch

LambdaTest integrates with Netlify to enhance developer workflows

July 23, 2024 / NewsShark

LambdaTest, a cloud-based unified testing platform, announced its partnership with Netlify, a platform for businesses to build performant and dynamic websites, ecommerce stores, and web apps. This collaboration aims to enhance the testing capabilities of developers, enabling them to deliver high-quality web applications more efficiently.

Developers get an exhaustive list of cloud-based testing solutions, including cross-browser compatibility testing, Web and App automation testing, and Real Device testing. Netlify users can integrate testing into their continuous deployment workflows and ensure comprehensive testing of their web applications before deployment through integration with LambdaTest.

The LambdaTest omnichannel enterprise execution environment helps businesses reduce time to market through Just in Time Test Orchestration (JITTO), ensuring quality releases and accelerated digital transformation.

Browser & App Testing Cloud allows users to run both manual and automated tests of web and mobile apps across 3000+ different browsers, real devices, and operating system environments.
HyperExecute helps customers run and orchestrate test grids in the cloud for any framework and programming language at blazing-fast speeds to cut down on quality test time, helping developers build software faster.

https://www.lambdatest.com

DeepL launches LLM focused on translation quality and performance

July 17, 2024 / NewsShark

DeepL, a global Language AI company, announced its next-generation language model, powered by a highly-specialized LLM technology built specifically for translation and editing to outperform competitors. The update enhances translation quality and performance in DeepL’s Language AI platform for businesses:

A specialized LLM: the DeepL solution leverages an LLM uniquely tuned for language, resulting in more human-like translations and writing for a variety of use cases with a reduced risk of hallucinations and misinformation.
Proprietary data: unlike general purpose models that simply train on the public internet, the DeepL model leverages over seven years of proprietary data specifically tuned for content creation and translation.
Human model tutoring: with a focus on quality, the DeepL model leverages thousands of hand-picked language experts specifically trained to “tutor” the model to best-in-class translation.

Translations using the next-gen model are available for DeepL Pro customers for translations in English, Japanese, German, and Simplified Chinese, with additional languages coming soon. The LLM can be activated within the web translator by selecting “next-gen model”. DeepL Pro users are protected by enterprise-grade security and compliance standards (ISO 27001 certification, GDPR/SOC 2 type 2 compliance), and no Pro translations are ever used to train its models.

https://www.deepl.com/en/press-release#2GYyHCVU8bjbu1iewCwLLx

Optimizely launches SaaS CMS

July 16, 2024 / NewsShark

Optimizely, a digital experience platform (DXP) provider, announced the launch of its SaaS CMS, featuring the all-new Visual Builder. The new products provide customers the ability to choose between SaaS and PaaS solutions depending on their organizational and business needs.

Visual Builder lets marketers build personalized experiences with a sleek interface, customizable elements, and an interactive preview that are designed to bolster engagement and conversion. Visual Builder removes technical barriers to creating dynamic content, and encourages content reuse.

With the suite of CMS capabilities, marketers can spend less time relying on developers and instead focus on creativity and:

Drag, drop and customize layouts with ease for seamless brand alignment.
Easily structure and configure content to drive engaging user journeys and deliver the right message at the right time.
Centralize management of websites, apps and more, all in one place.
Drive content reuse and efficiency with blueprints.
Tailor approval processes to fit team dynamics and project needs.

Today’s announcement also includes expanding the capabilities of Optimizely Graph, a set of APIs that enables digital teams to easily access and repurpose content from multiple sources and deliver it everywhere. The solution now offers faceted and fuzzy search functionalities.

https://www.optimizely.com/products/content-management

Foxit updates PDF SDK for Web 10.0

July 11, 2024 / NewsShark

Foxit, a provider of PDF solutions, announced the launch of Foxit PDF SDK for Web 10.0, delivering new tools and features for developers. The PDF SDK is aimed at helping software developers in any industry to build apps with PDF functionality by leveraging the most popular development frameworks.

The new release is designed to improve efficiency by streamlining workflow. This update includes the introduction of Dynamic Library Loading, which reduces initial load time and memory usage. Foxit PDF SDK for Web 10.0 also welcomes a retooled Refactored Bookmark Module for faster and more efficient bookmark loading along with enhanced navigation within PDF documents. Other highlights:

Dynamic XFA Form-Fill Functionality – XFA forms can now utilize dynamic scripting capabilities, making them interactive and data-driven.
3D Model Viewing – Introduces basic support for 3D model rendering within PDFs, allowing users to view simple 3D content within web applications.
Reorder Annotations – Users can reorder the stacking order through the user interface and programmatically.
Auto-Fit Text in Containers.
Custom Annotation Appearance.
Global Undo/Redo Functionality – is now available for all text editing actions.
Custom Font Support.
Group Signatures with Single /V Dictionary.
JSON Form Data Import/Export.

https://www.foxit.com

Syncro Soft announces Fusion 7.0

July 10, 2024 / NewsShark

Syncro Soft announced the release of Oxygen Content Fusion 7.0, their web-based collaboration platform for content creation. The new version enhances the project support with a personal authoring workspace where you can make changes across multiple files and commit them directly to the repository. The Changes side-view enables previewing and changes before committing. An XML-aware conflict resolution tool pulls changes from the repository, detects conflicts, suggests automated solutions, and allows merging content manually. Along with the editing features for XML documents, the built-in Web Author allows you to edit Markdown files inside the authoring workspace providing syntax preview and toolbar actions to insert common structures.

The workspace feature includes a Publications side-view for browsing of a publication’s DITA map. Users can open the map in a specialized DITA map editor to modify the structure using toolbar or contextual menu actions. The editor supports advanced DITA features such as profiling attributes, key definitions, and map references.

Continuous Deployment for output is possible with support for publishing connectors to enable uploading to various platforms such as Amazon S3, Netlify, or servers with SFTP protocol. The output can be configured to include an “Edit Online” link in each topic that sends authors to their personal workspace where they can make changes.

https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/whats_new.html

TransPerfect introduces GlobalLink Live

July 9, 2024 / NewsShark

TransPerfect, a provider of language and AI solutions for global business, announced the launch of GlobalLink Live, an AI-powered interpretation and accessibility platform that enables users to choose a mix of traditional interpretation and AI voice-to-voice translation to engage with live speech.

With GlobalLink Live multilingual capabilities, audiences can consume live speech—whether as part of a large event, small group meeting, or one-on-one encounter—in their preferred language regardless of the source language. Created as a turnkey solution to facilitate better language access for in-person, hybrid, and remote events, GlobalLink Live facilitates multiple options from traditional human interpretation to AI voice technology. Independent of location, subject area, budget, or local interpreter availability, event organizers have multiple options to ensure they can maximize engagement with their audiences.

Meetings and gatherings with attendees from differing language backgrounds, as well as service industry interactions between agents and customers who speak different languages, can all be facilitated through GlobalLink Live. The self-service platform can be used for on-site and remote speakers, and can be accessed by audiences attending in person or viewing remotely. Program owners can choose to deliver content via simultaneous human interpretation, live subtitles, or using AI-powered voice-to-voice dubbing technology.

https://globallink.transperfect.com

Elastic introduces Playground to accelerate RAG development with Elasticsearch

June 28, 2024 / NewsShark

Elastic announced Playground, a low-code interface that enables developers to build RAG applications using Elasticsearch in minutes.

While prototyping conversational search, the ability to rapidly iterate on and experiment with key components of a RAG workflow (for example: hybrid search, or adding reranking) are important— to get accurate and hallucination-free responses from LLMs.

Elasticsearch vector database and the Search AI platform provides developers with a wide range of capabilities such as comprehensive hybrid search, and to use innovation from a growing list of LLM providers. Our approach in our playground experience allows you to use the power of those features, without added complexity.

Playground’s intuitive interface allows you to A/B test different LLMs from model providers (like OpenAI and Anthropic) and refine your retrieval mechanism, to ground answers with your own data indexed into one or more Elasticsearch indices. The playground experience can leverage transformer models directly in Elasticsearch, but is also amplified with the Elasticsearch Open Inference API which integrates with a growing list of inference providers including Cohere and Azure AI Studio.

https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/rag-playground-introduction