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Gilbane Advisor 10-9-24 — ChatGPT Canvas, Agent tooling

October 9, 2024 /

This week we feature articles from Kurt Cagel, and Tula Masterman.

Additional reading comes from Michal Malewicz, Tari Ibaba, Eugen Rochko, Rachel Andrew, and Sara Fischer.

News comes from MongoDB, Magnolia, Movable Ink, and Optimizely.

Our next issue will arrive October 30.

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

Opinion / Analysis

An imperfect Canvas … but an interesting first step

OpenAI… “We’re introducing canvas, a new interface for working with ChatGPT on writing and coding projects that go beyond simple chat. Canvas opens in a separate window, allowing you and ChatGPT to collaborate on a project. This early beta introduces a new way of working together—not just through conversation, but by creating and refining ideas side by side.” 

Kurt Cagel has taken Canvas for a spin, and describes his experience using the basic editing capabilities. (6 min)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/imperfect-canvas-interesting-first-step-kurt-cagle-1gwvc

AI agents: The intersection of tool calling and reasoning in generative AI

Tula Masterman’s article “… focuses on how reasoning is expressed through tool calling, explores some of the challenges of tool use, covers common ways to evaluate tool-calling ability, and provides examples of how different models and agents interact with tools.” is a valuable resource. Be sure to check out The Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard V3 she references. (11 min)

https://medium.com/towards-data-science/ai-agents-the-intersection-of-tool-calling-and-reasoning-in-generative-ai-ff268eece443

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Content technology news

MongoDB releases MongoDB 8.0

The document database has performance improvements, reduced scaling costs, additional scalability, resilience, and data security capabilities.
https://www.mongodb.com/products/updates/version-release

Magnolia integrates Magnolia DXP with Veeva Vault PromoMats

Marketers can create digital experiences for multiple channels using MLR reviewed and approved assets in Veeva Vault PromoMats.
https://www.magnolia-cms.com

Movable Ink adds Da Vinci to Adobe Experience Cloud integrations

Joint customers can leverage their enterprise-specific data and campaign assets to inform the intelligent assembly and personalization of email templates and content variations.
https://movableink.com/adobe-and-movable-ink

Optimizely to acquire NetSpring

Optimizely’s DXP provides “warehouse native” analytics, enabling customers to tie experimentation and other digital experience activities to business metrics.
https://www.optimizely.com/netspring

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MongoDB releases MongoDB 8.0

October 2, 2024 /

MongoDB, Inc. released MongoDB 8.0, providing performance improvements, reduced scaling costs, and additional scalability, resilience, and data security capabilities. MongoDB 8.0 is available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure through MongoDB Atlas, on MongoDB Enterprise Advanced for on-premises and hybrid deployments, and as a free download with MongoDB Community Edition. Capabilities: 

  • Optimized performance for a wide variety of applications. 
    Architectural optimizations reduced memory usage and query times, has more efficient batch processing capabilities, and handles higher volumes of time series data.
  • Encryption that unlocks new use cases.
  • Queryable Encryption allows customers to encrypt sensitive application data, store it securely and run expressive queries on the encrypted data for processing.
  • Faster horizontal scaling for high availability.
  • Sharding improvements in MongoDB 8.0 distribute data across shards faster without the need for additional configuration. 
  • Resilience for unexpected application demand. 
  • The ability to set a default maximum time limit for running queries, to reject recurring types of problematic queries, and to set query settings to persist through events like database restarts. 
  • Reduced costs and increased scale for vector applications.
  • With vector quantization, customers can build a wide range of search and AI applications at higher scale and lower cost.

https://www.mongodb.com/products/updates/version-release

Gilbane Advisor 10-2-24 — Content presentation, Medium & ScyllaDB

October 2, 2024 /

This week we feature articles from Michael Andrews, and Andréas Saudemont.

Additional reading comes from Marta Serra-Garcia & Uri Gneezy, Mike Loukides, and Merve Noyan, Philipp Schmid, Omar Sanseviero, Aritra Roy Gosthipaty, Lewis Tunstall, Vaibhav Srivastav & Pedro Cuenca.

News comes from Ai2, Contentstack, MindsDB, and Salesforce.

Our next issue will arrive October 9.

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

Opinion / Analysis

Separating content and presentation: Moving past FUD

Michael Andrews argues this separation is more critical than ever, and that the decades old discussions about this topic “don’t account for the current changes reshaping today’s digital ecosystems (e.g., the development of design systems, structured content, and the shift to composable and headless architectures.)”. Andrews starts a more modern discussion. (21 min)

https://storyneedle.com/separating-content-and-presentation-moving-past-fud/

ScyllaDB implementation: Lists in Medium’s feature store, Part 2

Andréas Saudemont’s case-study/tutorial is useful for those curious about ScyllaDB, or anyone who has struggled with similar limitations of relational DBs — see his link to (a shorter) Part 1. (18 min)

https://medium.engineering/scylladb-implementation-lists-in-mediums-feature-store-part-2-905299c89392

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Ai2 launches family of open multimodal models

Molmo goes beyond today’s most advanced multimodal models by creating open models that can now point and act in the visual world.
https://molmo.allenai.org/blog

Contentstack adds visual building capabilities to CMS

The composable digital experience platform (DXP) based on the enterprise headless CMS with Visual Builder accelerates workflows for marketers.
https://www.contentstack.com/platforms/visual-building

MindsDB launches conversational enterprise-ready AI

Designed to reason and orchestrate across real-time and historical enterprise data to answer natural language questions for AI applications and agents.
https://mindsdb.com/newsroom/mindsdb-launches-conversational-enterprise-ready-ai-that-shows-you-how-it-thinks

Salesforce to acquire Zoomin

Will accelerate the unlocking of unstructured data to power AI agents for more personalized and context-aware in every customer interaction.
https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/salesforce-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-zoomin/

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The Gilbane Advisor is authored by Frank Gilbane and is ad-free, cost-free, and curated for content, computing, web, data, and digital experience technology and information professionals. We publish recommended articles and content technology news most Wednesdays. We do not sell or share personal data.

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Movable Ink adds Da Vinci to Adobe Experience Cloud integrations

October 1, 2024 /

Movable Ink announced the integration of Movable Ink Da Vinci and Adobe Journey Optimizer. This adds to existing Movable Ink built integrations into Adobe Experience Cloud applications, including Adobe Target, Adobe Commerce, Adobe Real-Time CDP, and Adobe Campaign.

The new integration of Movable Ink Da Vinci, an AI-powered content personalization solution, and Adobe Journey Optimizer accelerates the creation of custom marketing content for high-volume campaigns. When orchestrating customer journeys in Adobe Journey Optimizer, joint customers can leverage their enterprise-specific data and campaign assets to inform the intelligent assembly and personalization of email templates and content variations unique to each subscriber. Customers can then bring those assets into Adobe Journey Optimizer to further personalize, optimize, and deploy their email marketing campaigns. This builds on existing integrations between Movable Ink Da Vinci and Adobe Campaign, which aims to maximize customer engagement for large-scale campaigns and reach dormant subscribers.

Movable Ink has also built existing integrations between Adobe and Movable Ink Studio – an open-time, in-the-moment content-generation solution. In Movable Ink Studio, brands can leverage insights from applications like Adobe Real-Time CDP, Commerce, and Target to generate personalized content for email and mobile messages.

https://movableink.com/adobe-and-movable-ink

Magnolia integrates Magnolia DXP with Veeva Vault PromoMats

September 30, 2024 /

Magnolia announced a new connector to integrate compliant content in Veeva Vault PromoMats with the Magnolia Digital Experience Platform (DXP). The connector allows marketing teams to create and edit healthcare professional (HCP) portals, brand sites, and patient portals in the Magnolia DXP using medical, legal, and regulatory (MLR) approved assets from Vault PromoMats. Mutual life sciences customers can streamline content management and deliver compliant promotional materials faster across channels.

The Magnolia DXP integrates DAM, CMS, CDP, CRM, and analytics systems to consolidate a commercial organization’s digital ecosystem onto a single interface. Marketing teams use their preferred systems, while giving biopharma companies a common way to create digital content and experiences across brands. The Magnolia connector unifies authoring in the Magnolia DXP and simplifies content reuse, claims management, and publishing in different portals and websites.

With the Magnolia DXP configured with Veeva login credentials, marketers can access MLR-approved product claims, images, text, and modular assets in Vault PromoMats from Magnolia for smoother content authoring and publishing on multiple channels. Vault PromoMats remains the single source of truth, updates are made in real time so that portals, sites, and applications built in Magnolia always display the latest compliant content.

https://www.magnolia-cms.com

Optimizely to acquire NetSpring

September 30, 2024 /

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 can also apply Optimizely’s Stats Engine and advanced analysis to data inside a customer’s data warehouse to gain access to visualization capabilities. Based on the technology that NetSpring provides, all of this can happen without extracting data out of cloud data warehouses such as Snowflake, Databricks, Google BigQuery or Amazon Redshift, which maximizes speed, minimizes cost and protects customer data privacy. The new capabilities will also serve as the future analytics platform across all of Optimizely One, an operating system for marketers.

Founded in 2019 by the same team as Business Intelligence (BI) company ThoughtSpot, NetSpring is an advanced platform in the warehouse native analytics space. With a proven product and large enterprise deployments, NetSpring will quickly complement Optimizely’s offerings, starting with experimentation. The transaction, which is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2024, is subject to customary closing conditions.

https://www.optimizely.com/netspring

Ai2 launches family of open multimodal models

September 25, 2024 /

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 that to enable one to act in their worlds, unlocking a new generation of capabilities, from sophisticated web agents to robotics:

  • Exceptional image understanding: Molmo can accurately understand a wide range of visual data, from everyday objects and signs to complex charts, messy whiteboards, clocks, and menus.
  • Actionable insights: To bridge the gap between perception and action, Molmo models can point to what they perceive, empowering capabilities that require spatial knowledge. Molmo can point to UI elements on the screen, enabling developers to build web agents or robots that can navigate complex interactions on screen and within the real-world.

Molmo was designed and built in the open and Ai2 will be releasing all model weights, captioning and fine-tuning data, and source code. Select model weights, inference code, and demo are available, providing open access to enable continued research and innovation in the AI community.

https://molmo.allenai.org/blog

Gilbane Advisor 9-25-24 — CORE-Bench, dynamic knowledge graphs

September 25, 2024 /

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 reproducibility?

Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan tackle a critical issue…
“In a new paper, we introduce CORE-Bench (Computational Reproducibility Agent Benchmark), a benchmark for measuring how well AI can automate computational reproducibility, that is, reproducing a paper’s findings when the code and data are available.”

Introduction: (5 min) 
https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/can-ai-automate-computational-reproducibility
Full paper:
PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.11363v1
HTML: https://arxiv.org/html/2409.11363v1

Dynamic knowledge graphs: a next step for data representation?

How do you integrate temporal data into knowledge graphs? What’s the difference between dynamic knowledge graphs, temporal knowledge graphs, and discrete time dynamic graphs? What kinds of applications are they used for? And how do they work, or compete with, LLMs? Amanda Kau does a nice job addressing these and other questions. (9 min)

https://medium.com/@researchgraph/dynamic-knowledge-graphs-a-next-step-for-data-representation-c35a205a520a

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Content technology news

Brightspot announces latest version of their content management system

Updated CMS has expansive tech stack integrations, AI features that speed up creation time, and prioritizes streamlined content workflows.
https://www.brightspot.com

HubSpot launches Breeze, updates Marketing & Content Hubs

Breeze includes Copilot, an AI companion; Agents, AI experts who complete work from start to finish; 80+ AI features embedded across the platform.
https://www.hubspot.com/company-news/fall24-spotlight

DeepL announces glossary generator

Companies can create and manage custom translation glossaries so specific words or phrases are translated consistently according to their unique terminology.
https://www.deepl.com/en/translator

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

New offerings enable brands to personalize AI-generated content variations across channels such as web and email to boost customer engagement.
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

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The Gilbane Advisor is authored by Frank Gilbane and is ad-free, cost-free, and curated for content, computing, web, data, and digital experience technology and information professionals. We publish recommended articles and content technology news most Wednesdays. We do not sell or share personal data.

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