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Brightcove launches Marketing Studio for Sales

November 14, 2024 /

Brightcove launched Brightcove Marketing Studio for Sales, for global sales teams to easily create and deploy personalized video content. The video engagement platform gives companies control over brand and quality standards while providing unified measurement and insights across content and touch-points. Sales teams can create personalized video experiences for prospects and customers without needing video production expertise. 

  • Centralized brand management: Create and control centrally managed video templates with embedded brand guidelines and streamlined approval processes.
  • Integration: Aligns with existing martech stacks, workflows, and processes, for rapid adoption by sales teams.
  • Scalable video personalization: Publish videos on branded landing pages and social platforms, and with Brightcove’s AI Universal Translator (expected availability January 2025) sales can engage global audiences in over 130 languages.
  • User-friendly video creation: The platform’s user-friendly tools allow sales teams to record new content, swap footage, add voiceovers, include music and graphics, and implement interactive elements.
  • Enhanced engagement and analytics: Built-in video analytics deliver insights into prospect engagement, completion rates, and impressions.

Brightcove Launches Marketing Studio For Sales, Putting Video In The Hands Of Global Sales Teams To Drive Engagement And Accelerate Business Results

Elastic announces AI ecosystem to accelerate GenAI application development

November 14, 2024 /

Elastic a Search AI Company, announced its AI ecosystem to help enterprise developers accelerate building and deploying their Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. The Elastic AI Ecosystem provides developers with a curated, comprehensive set of AI technologies and tools integrated with the Elasticsearch vector database, designed to speed time-to-market, ROI delivery, and innovation.

The Elastic AI Ecosystem offers developers pre-built Elasticsearch vector database integrations from a trusted network of AI companies to deliver seamless access to the critical components of GenAI applications across AI models, cloud infrastructure, MLOps frameworks, data prep and ingestion platforms, and AI security & operations. These integrations help developers:

  • Deliver more relevant experiences through RAG
  • Prepare and ingest data from multiple sources
  • Experiment with and evaluate AI models
  • Leverage GenAI development frameworks
  • Observe and securely deploy AI applications

The Elastic AI Ecosystem includes integrations with Alibaba Cloud, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Anthropic’s Claude, Cohere, Confluent, Dataiku, DataRobot, Galileo, Google Cloud, Hugging Face, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Microsoft, Mistral AI, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Protect AI, RedHat, Vectorize, and Unstructured.

https://ir.elastic.co/news/news-details/2024/Elastic-Announces-AI-Ecosystem-to-Accelerate-GenAI-Application-Development/default.aspx

Snowflake announces availability of Unistore with Hybrid Tables

November 12, 2024 /

Snowflake announced its modern approach to bring transactional and analytical data together in a single, unified platform with Unistore. Unistore is powered by Hybrid Tables (now available on AWS), a table type that enables fast, high-concurrency point operations to support transactional workloads. With Unistore, customers can simplify their data architectures, while ensuring consistent security and governance across their data. 

As a part of Unistore, Hybrid Tables intelligently identify when a query is transactional or analytical in nature to provide customers with the most optimal query performance. Hybrid Tables run double-digit millisecond point operations alongside users’ analytical queries, all within Snowflake. With Hybrid Tables, organizations can now harness all of their data to unlock various use cases including:

  • State Management: Enabling users to maintain application and workflow state in real-time, removing the need to manage multiple database systems.
  • Data Serving: Empowering users to serve low-latency data for their apps, without having to move between databases, while maintaining a unified governance and security model.
  • Building Lightweight Transactional Apps: Helping users build lightweight transactional apps with Snowflake’s expanded support for transactional capabilities, simplifying both app development and their architectures.

https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/unistore-general-availability

Box announces Box AI Studio

November 12, 2024 /

Box, Inc., an Intelligent Content Management (ICM) platform, announced a new set of AI-powered enhancements to advance how organizations manage content. Box AI, initially an AI assistant that could answer questions or generate content, has evolved into Box AI Studio, a platform enabling enterprises to apply AI to complex use cases.

Box customers can now choose from a variety of models offered by our AI model partners and customize their agent prompts with specific instructions — like how to respond to a particular question in a way that reflects the business’s context and the brand tone. These personalized agents can then be used to help perform tasks and get insights in a precise and standardized way, enabling organizations to leverage them for specific workflows and deliver the relevant and accurate results.

Box also announced Box Apps, available in Beta today, a no-code solution that makes it easier to create intelligent applications that manage content-centric business processes throughout the enterprise, and Enterprise Advanced, a new plan that combines the full power of the Box Intelligent Content Management platform into a single offering.

Box AI Studio and Enterprise Advanced will roll out in January 2025.

https://blog.box.com/intelligent-content-management-innovations-boxworks-2024

Gilbane Advisor 11-6-24 — Undead agents, Breaking web

November 5, 2024 /

This week we feature articles from Rafe Brena, and Benjamin Brooks. 

Additional reading comes from Jenna Ahart, Astasia Myers, Van Chien Nguyen et al, and Joan Westenberg.

News comes from OpenAI, Coveo & Shopify, DataStax, and Salesforce.

Our next issue will arrive November 20.

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

Opinion / Analysis

Agents are coming back from the dead

Rafe Brena has a delightful piece on the history of agents. It is fun, non-technical, and should be of interest to “anybody thinking about developing “agents” or just considering using them.” Be sure to checkout the link to Apple’s 1987 five-minute video of a “Knowledge Navigator”. (8 min)

https://pub.towardsai.net/agents-are-coming-back-from-the-dead-50c929ab8387

AI search could break the web

Developers should act before governments fall back on blunt tools.

Navigating the complex intersection of web ecosystem health, copyright and legal issues, AI / machine learning ethical issues, and current and potential regulations, is daunting. Even moreso given diverse type of expertise required for well-informed decision making. Benjamin Brooks provides some helpful clarity. (6 min)

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/31/1106504/ai-search-could-break-the-web

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ChatGPT will choose to search the web based on what you ask, or you can manually choose to search by clicking the web search icon or links to sources.
https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-search

Coveo partners with Shopify

The partnership brings AI search, generative, product discovery and dynamic session optimization commerce experiences to enterprise customers.
https://www.coveo.com/en/integrations/shopify-search

DataStax expands Astra DB extension for GitHub Copilot

Manage and interact with Astra DB and create Langflow GenAI applications through a more intuitive natural language interface.
https://www.datastax.com/blog/astra-db-extension-github-copilot-updates

Salesforce launches Agentforce

Agentforce delivers autonomous AI agents that can connect to enterprise data and take action across sales, service, marketing, and commerce.
https://www.salesforce.com/news/press-releases/2024/10/29/agentforce-general-availability-announcement/

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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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Coveo partners with Shopify

October 31, 2024 /

Coveo, an enterprise AI platform that brings AI Search and generative AI to every point–of-experience, announced they have partnered with Shopify to bring its commerce AI capabilities to Shopify enterprise customers.

Coveo will give Shopify enterprise merchants the ability to manage AI models and strategies for search relevance and semantic precision, personalization, recommendations and generative shopper experiences, enabling AI-powered product discovery and dynamic session optimization to drive higher conversion, revenue and margins within large scale and complex B2B, B2C and D2C businesses. Shopify merchants will have access to:

  • Search: Query suggestions, personalized 1:1 results, partial part # match, cross-reference lookups, powered by AI and semantics.
  • Personalization: with real-time individualized AI-powered search results creating a relevant experience for known or anonymous visitors.
  • Recommendations: Product and content recommendations augmented in-session based on real-time shopper behavior and intent cues.
  • Indexing: Unified indexing enables product discovery, regardless of catalog complexity.
  • Generative Experiences: Guided advisory experiences educating customers on products and putting retailers’ content to work in the discovery journey.
  • AI and ML Models: Deliver solutions for your shopper journey; from query suggestions to personalized and business-aware ranking.
  • Merchandising and insights: Controls to schedule campaigns, drive experimentation and apply business rules on top of AI.

https://www.coveo.com/en/integrations/shopify-search

OpenAI introduces ChatGPT search

October 31, 2024 /

ChatGPT can now search the web so you can get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources, which you previously needed to go to a search engine for. This blends the benefits of a natural language interface with the value of up-to-date sports scores, news, stock quotes. Chats now include links to sources, such as news articles and blog posts.

ChatGPT will choose to search the web based on what you ask, or you can manually choose to search by clicking the web search icon. Go deeper with follow-up questions, and ChatGPT will consider the full context of your chat. Chats include links to sources, such as news articles and blog posts, giving you a way to learn more.

The search model is a fine-tuned version of GPT-4o, post-trained using synthetic data generation techniques, including distilling outputs from OpenAI o1-preview. ChatGPT search leverages third-party search providers, as well as content provided directly by our partners.

Search will be available at chatgpt.com⁠ and our desktop and mobile apps. All ChatGPT Plus and Team users, as well as SearchGPT waitlist users, will have access today. Enterprise and Edu users will get access in the next few weeks. We’ll roll out to all Free users over the coming months.

https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-search

Gilbane Advisor 10-30-24 — LLM reasoning, alien thinking

October 30, 2024 /

This week we feature articles from Melanie Mitchell, and David Weinberger. 

Additional reading comes from Chris Messina, David Haber, Chance Miller, and Michael Parekh.

News comes from Semantic Web Company & Ontotext, Perplexity, Acquia, and Sitecore.

Our next issue will arrive November 6.

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

Opinion / Analysis

The LLM reasoning debate heats up

Three recent papers examine the robustness of reasoning and problem-solving in large language models

Melanie Mitchell describes each papers’ methodology, and findings, and concludes that “… there’s no consensus about the conclusion!” This may not be a surprise, but her article is a very readable and useful update. (11 min)

https://aiguide.substack.com/p/the-llm-reasoning-debate-heats-up

AI doesn’t think like us

David Weinberger wears his philosophy hat to make his case in this journal essay. The result is an especially thoughtful and balanced contribution to discussions about “knowledge” in a world of humans and machine learning. Prepare to think. (15 min)

https://dweinberger.medium.com/ai-doesnt-think-like-us-81a6fdc33e2a

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Semantic Web Company and Ontotext merge to create Graphwise

The knowledge graph management platform includes complete multi-modal data support – unstructured, semi-structured and structured data.
https://graphwise.ai

Perplexity introduces Internal Knowledge Search and Spaces

 With Perplexity Pro and Enterprise Pro, you can search across both public web content and internal knowledge bases, and collaborate in Perplexity Spaces.
https://www.perplexity.ai/enterprise

Acquia adds new AI capabilities for digital asset management

Acquia Video Creator, by Moovly, is now available as an add-on module to Acquia DAM and PIM (product information management) solutions.
https://www.acquia.com/products/acquia-dam

Sitecore launches Sitecore Stream

Sitecore Stream helps orchestrate marketer experience across Sitecore solutions, including XM Cloud, Content Hub, and Digital Experience Platform (DXP).
https://www.sitecore.com/products/sitecore-stream

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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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