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NebulaGraph Enterprise v3.7.0 simplifies building knowledge graphs

April 3, 2024 /

Vesoft announced the latest update to the NebulaGraph Enterprise v3.7.0, featuring two modules: the Knowledge Graph Build (beta) and the AI Assistant. These functions invite users to experience firsthand the seamless integration of graph technology and Large Language Models (LLMs) at a product level.

In the v3.7.0 of the NebulaGraph Enterprise, the KG Build function streamlines the creation of knowledge graphs by connecting to LLMs, automatically processing uploaded file data, transforming it into a knowledge graph, and storing it in the database. This new process reduces manpower and resource needs and enhances data processing efficiency. Beyond supporting small-scale trial files, the KG Build function accommodates super large-scale file uploads to LLMs, allowing users to customize knowledge graph construction tasks for a more flexible and convenient process.

Alongside KG Build, NebulaGraph Explorer v3.7.0 introduced the AI Assistant function for Graph Language Generation. The query language of graph databases has been a barrier for many users, often requiring systematic learning or professional assistance. With the Graph Language Generation function users simply input natural language queries related to the graph database, and the AI assistant translates the query into a graph query statement.

https://www.nebula-graph.io/posts/enterprise_3.7_release

Gilbane Advisor 4-3-24 — Bluesky best?, decentralized social

April 3, 2024 /

This week we feature articles from Mike Masnick, and Andrés Monroy-Hernández.

Additional reading comes from Ahren E. Lehnert, Kola Ayonrinde, Nathan Lambert, and Gary Marcus.

News comes from Databricks, Adobe & Microsoft, TransPerfect & TheSpeech, and Ontotext.

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

Opinion / Analysis

Why Bluesky remains the most interesting experiment in social media, by far

“Bluesky… has recently both opened up federation, but even more interestingly it has abstracted out the moderation layer (along with open sourcing tooling for people to use). This means that anyone can provide moderation services, and users can pick who they want to moderate their experience.”

Mike Masnick explains why the combination of federation and abstraction of services opens up many possibilities. He bravely uses moderation as his example. (11 min)

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/27/why-bluesky-remains-the-most-interesting-experiment-in-social-media-by-far/

Five themes discussed at Princeton’s workshop on decentralized social media

Andrés Monroy-Hernández’s post on the workshop themes combined with Masnick’s article provides context and will get you up-to-date with decentralized social media progress and challenges. (7 min)

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2024/03/19/five-themes-discussed-at-princetons-workshop-on-decentralized-social-media/

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Databricks launches DBRX, an open source LLM

Customers get built-in data management, governance, lineage and monitoring capabilities on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.
https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-dbrx-new-state-art-open-llm

Adobe and Microsoft partner on GenAI for marketers

Adobe Experience Cloud workflows and insights to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 help marketers overcome application and data silos & manage workflows.
https://news.microsoft.com/2024/03/26/adobe-and-microsoft-partner-to-bring-new-generative-ai-capabilities-to-marketers-as-they-work-in-microsoft-365-applications/ ■ https://blog.adobe.com/en/topics/adobe-summit

TransPerfect acquires TheSpeech

The remote simultaneous interpretation platform for multilingual events interprets from multiple source languages to multiple target languages and broadcasts live.
https://www.transperfect.com ■ https://thespeech.app

Ontotext updates LinkedLifeData Inventory solution

LinkedLifeData Inventory allows healthcare and life sciences professionals to access public datasets and ontologies in Resource Description Framework (RDF).
https://www.ontotext.com/solutions/healthcare-and-life-sciences/linked-life-data-inventory/

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Searchspring acquires Intelligent Reach

April 2, 2024 /

Searchspring, a platform for ecommerce site search, product merchandising, and ecommerce personalization, announced today it has acquired Intelligent Reach, a UK-headquartered, full-service data feed management software provider trusted by brands such as HP, Asics, Avon Cosmetics, Black and Decker, Seraphine, and Burberry.

Purpose-built for ecommerce, merchants use the Searchspring platform to facilitate better product discovery through semantic site search capabilities and flexible product merchandising, which includes business rules as well as AI-driven campaigns. The Searchspring personalization suite further helps to get the right product to the right shopper at the right time.

Intelligent Reach empowers mid-market and enterprise merchants by curating their product data to optimize for distribution across more than 1,500 advertising channels, shopping sites, and marketplaces by managing product data effectively, integrating it across platforms, and syncing orders with existing systems to streamline operations. These channels include Google Shopping, Amazon, eBay, Facebook, and Instagram. The platform reduces the time it takes a brand, retailer, or agency to access new channels. It streamlines operations, accelerates entry to new markets, manages the complexity of marketplaces and social commerce, and increases return on ad spend.

https://searchspring.com/news/searchspring-acquires-intelligent-reach

Bridgeline releases Zeus Update with Concept and Image Search

March 28, 2024 /

Bridgeline Digital, Inc. announced that Smart Search by HawkSearch, featuring AI powered concept and image search with Generative AI (GenAI) capabilities, is now available to the general public. Smart Search leverages the latest advancements in AI, including large language models (LLMs) and vector databases, to enhance online shopping search functionality. Smart Search includes:

  • Concept Search understands the intent behind a customer’s search to find products that are more relevant to the customer’s needs. A customer can describe what they need to automatically create a shopping list. For example, if a customer tells an online flower store, “find white flowers to plant in Southern California with fragrant blooms to attract bees,” Smart Search would return Gardenia and Star Jasmine.
  • Image Search allows online shoppers to shop with photos from their cell phone or online images. A shopper could go to the above gardening website and upload a photo of a garden to automatically load their shopping cart with similar flowers and trees.
  • GenAI automatically creates, corrects, or expands descriptions of products in your catalog. GenAI also creates landing pages with keywords for each product.

Smart Search supports 50 languages even if the site is primarily in English.

https://www.hawksearch.com/webinar/meet-zeus-hawksearchs-newest-release

TransPerfect acquires TheSpeech

March 27, 2024 /

TransPerfect, a provider of language and AI solutions for global business, today announced that it has acquired TheSpeech, a remote simultaneous interpretation platform for multilingual events. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

TheSpeech’s self-service platform enables customers to have their live events interpreted from multiple source languages to multiple target languages and broadcast live to any size audience, anywhere around the world. Key features of TheSpeech include:

  • Support for live, online, and hybrid events
  • 150+ languages
  • Closed captions for deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers
  • Support for nearly all platforms and configurations
  • Data collection and statistics for meeting organizers to be informed on engagement while being GDPR compliant
  • No hardware rental required and nothing to physically install

TheSpeech will continue to be led by CEO Peter Cselenyi, who will join TransPerfect’s management team. Cselenyi has served as CEO since founding the company in 2015 with partners Peter Vincze and Virag Vinceffy. TransPerfect was advised on the transaction by DLA Piper Hungary. TheSpeech was advised by Andersen Legal Hungary.

https://www.transperfect.com ■ https://thespeech.app

Databricks launches DBRX

March 27, 2024 /

Databricks announced the launch of DBRX, a general purpose large language model (LLM) they say outperforms established open source models on standard benchmarks. DBRX democratizes the training and tuning of custom LLMs for enterprises without relying on a small handful of closed models. Paired with Databricks Mosaic AI’s unified tooling, DBRX helps customers rapidly build and deploy generative AI applications that are safe, accurate, and governed without giving up control of their data and intellectual property.

DBRX was developed by Mosaic AI and trained on NVIDIA DGX Cloud. Databricks optimized DBRX for efficiency with a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture, built on the MegaBlocks open source project. For a look at model evaluations and performance benchmarks compared to existing open source LLMs like Llama 2 70B and Mixtral-8x7B, and to see how DBRX is competitive with GPT-4 quality for internal use cases such as SQL, visit the Mosaic Research blog.

DBRX is available on GitHub and Hugging Face. On the Databricks Platform, enterprises can leverage its long context abilities in retrieval augmented generation (RAG) systems, and build custom DBRX models on their data. DBRX is also available on AWS and Google Cloud, as well as directly on Microsoft Azure through Azure Databricks.

https://www.databricks.com/blog/introducing-dbrx-new-state-art-open-llm

Gilbane Advisor 3-27-24 — GenAI product cycle, TCO focus

March 27, 2024 /

This week we feature articles from Kunal Sawarkar, and Steve Jones.

Additional reading comes from Avi Bar-Zeev, Cobus Greyling, Dean Allemang, and Michael Parekh.

News comes from Verndale & Yaksa, Chetu & Brightspot, RWS, and Clarifai & Deepgram.

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

Opinion / Analysis

A common theme among analysts during the recent prediction season was that 2024 would be the year GenAI applications transitioned from speculation and sandboxes to deployments in production environments. Kunal Sawarkar agrees, but has some solid advice for executive decision-makers. (8 min)

https://medium.com/towards-generative-ai/key-technological-trends-shaping-enterprise-genai-in-2024-65937a86f53c

Why increased productivity can cost more

Steve Jones also has some good, and perhaps surprising, advice for executives planning GenAI implementations…

““GenAI will drive 30% improvements in productivity”, now as a blanket statement that is wrong, but lets for a second assume that its right, and I’ll explain how mathematically I can improve the productivity of everyone in the software development lifecycle and still spend way more money delivering the same outcomes.” (4 min)

https://blog.metamirror.io/why-increased-productivity-can-cost-more-97460a314b16

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Verndale acquires Yaksa

Yaksa brings ecommerce expertise in digital commerce and digital experience platforms (DXP), including Optimizely, Umbraco, Orckestra Commerce.
https://www.verndale.com ■ https://www.yaksa.ca/en

Chetu partners with Brightspot

Global software developer joins content management system provider’s partner network to offer CMS solutions to businesses worldwide.
https://www.chetu.com/news/chetu-partners-with-brightspot.php■ https://www.brightspot.com

RWS launches Component Content Alliance (CCA)

Educational resources where professionals can collectively shape the future of content componentization and structured content authoring.
https://www.rws.com/about/news/2024/rws-launches-component-content-alliance/

Clarifai and Deepgram announce partnership

Clarifai developers can integrate Deepgram’s ASR technology, reducing the time required to build AI applications with speech recognition functionality.
https://www.clarifai.com/press-release/clarifai-and-deepgram-announce-strategic-partnership

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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 weekly. We do not sell or share personal data.

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Adobe and Microsoft partner on GenAI for marketers

March 26, 2024 /

Adobe and Microsoft announced plans to bring Adobe Experience Cloud workflows and insights to Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 to help marketers overcome application and data silos and manage workflows. The integration bring marketing insights and workflows from Adobe Experience Cloud applications and Microsoft Dynamics 365 to Microsoft Copilot, assisting marketers as they work in tools such as Outlook, Microsoft Teams and Word to develop creative briefs, create content, and manage content approvals. Initial capabilities will focus on:

  • Strategic insights in the flow of work: Campaign insights from Adobe Experience Cloud applications such as Adobe Customer Journey Analytics and Adobe Workfront, combined with Dynamics 365, the Copilot for Microsoft 365 experience helps marketers get quick insights and updates in Outlook, Teams and Word. Marketers can ask questions to get the status of a marketing project, understand campaign effectiveness, outstanding approvals, and actions to take.
  • Create campaign briefs, presentations, website updates and emails with relevant context: Marketers can also create imagery with Adobe Firefly generative AI and create content in Word that gets published directly to channels such as web and mobile.

https://news.microsoft.com/2024/03/26/adobe-and-microsoft-partner-to-bring-new-generative-ai-capabilities-to-marketers-as-they-work-in-microsoft-365-applications/ ■ https://blog.adobe.com/en/topics/adobe-summit

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