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Pinecone announces Pinecone Serverless

January 16, 2024 / NewsShark

Vector database company Pinecone announced Pinecone Serverless, with a unique architecture and a serverless experience, to deliver cost reductions and eliminate infrastructure hassles, allowing companies to bring better GenAI applications to market faster. Companies can improve the quality of their GenAI applications and have a choice of LLMs just by making more data (or “knowledge”) available to the LLM. Pinecone Serverless includes:

Separation of reads, writes, and storage reduces costs for all types and sizes of workloads.
Architecture with vector clustering on top of blob storage provides low-latency, fresh vector search over practically unlimited data sizes at a low cost.
Indexing and retrieval algorithms built from scratch to enable fast and memory-efficient vector search from blob storage without sacrificing retrieval quality.
Multi-tenant compute layer provides efficient retrieval for thousands of users, on demand. This enables a serverless experience in which developers don’t need to provision, manage, or think about infrastructure, as well as usage-based billing that lets companies pay only for what they use.

Pinecone Serverless is launching with integrations to Anthropic, Anyscale, Cohere, Confluent, Langchain, Pulumi, and Vercel. Pinecone Serverless is available in public preview today in AWS cloud regions, and will be available thereafter on Azure and GCP.

https://www.pinecone.io/blog/serverless/

Altova announces MobileTogether 9.0

January 16, 2024 / NewsShark

Altova announced the release of MobileTogether 8.1, its low-code app development platform for building enterprise solutions and native apps for iOS, Android, and Windows. This release introduces full support for MQTT, allowing developers to build MQTT-enabled apps for communication among smart devices.

MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) is a lightweight messaging protocol used for communication by smart devices. MQTT is a critical component of real-time monitoring and control of devices and processes in a wide variety of industries including automotive, manufacturing, transportation, and healthcare. MQTT enabled apps are invaluable for realizing the potential of smart devices in industrial automation as well as smart home and smart office scenarios.

MobileTogether 9.0 introduces complete support for building MQTT enabled apps with new actions, page events, and variables for interacting with an MQTT network as a publisher, a subscriber, or both. Also new in MobileTogether 9.0:

Support for table row dragging
Support for table row swiping
Native support for MySQL and MariaDB
Support for drawing barcodes and QR codes
Chart generation on clients
Page source tree editing during simulation
Dark and light themes for MobileTogether Designer
Solution aliases on the server
Support for multiple row groups per table
New button looks

https://www.altova.com/whatsnew

Typeface announces integration within Microsoft Dynamics 365

January 11, 2024 / NewsShark

Typeface, a generative AI platform for enterprise content creation, and Microsoft today announced an AI-powered experience within Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, a customer data platform and journey orchestration solution, aimed at transforming how marketers work by reducing the complexities of end-to-end campaign management and enhancing marketer productivity and ROI.

To use this AI-powered experience in Dynamics 365 Customer Insights, marketing teams can simply type their desired campaign outcome in their own words or upload an existing brief. Copilot then responds by generating a central project board that recommends and connects everything needed for the campaign, including audience data, journey orchestration, and channels – all in the flow of work. While creating their campaign, marketers will have access to Typeface, so they can generate and curate on-brand content directly within Dynamics 365 Customer Insights. For Dynamics 365 Customer Insights customers, an early access public preview, will be released in the first quarter of 2024.

https://www.typeface.ai/blog/typeface-announces-integration-within-microsoft-dynamics-365-customer-insights-to-help-redefine-marketer-experiences

MadCap Software acquires Xyleme to expand suite of intelligent content management products

January 11, 2024 / NewsShark

MadCap Software, Inc., announced the acquisition of Xyleme, Inc. With the addition of Xyleme to their product portfolio, organizations will have a single source of enterprise-class solutions for their content needs—from delivering product and user documentation to onboarding customers and their workforce.

MadCap Software solutions allow for creating, managing and publishing modern technical documentation, such as support and Help portals, knowledge bases, instructional and procedure manuals, from a single source for any format, including online, mobile and print. MadCap, customers rely on the cloud-based MadCap Central content management platform, MadCap IXIA CCMS component content management system, and MadCap Flare technical authoring software for how corporate documentation is delivered.

Xyleme offers an intelligent learning content management system (LCMS) to control and manage an enterprise’s mission-critical content. Xyleme’s platform supports the development, management, multi-format publishing, and syndication of content for complex use cases, such as employee or customer onboarding, skills development, product and skills certification, customer training, and channel and partner enablement. Because Xyleme’s platform deliver content to all applications within the learning ecosystem—learning management system (LMS), learning experience platform (LXP), adaptive learning, mobile app, etc, it serves as a single source of truth for content and critical data.

https://www.madcapsoftware.com/press-release/madcap-software-acquires-xyleme/ ■ https://xyleme.com

OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Team

January 10, 2024 / NewsShark

From the OpenAI blog…

We’re launching a new ChatGPT plan for teams of all sizes, which provides a secure, collaborative workspace to get the most out of ChatGPT at work…

ChatGPT Team offers access to our advanced models like GPT-4 and DALL·E 3, and tools like Advanced Data Analysis. It additionally includes a dedicated collaborative workspace for your team and admin tools for team management. As with ChatGPT Enterprise, you own and control your business data—we do not train on your business data or conversations, and our models don’t learn from your usage. More details on our data privacy practices can be found on our privacy page and Trust Portal. ChatGPT Team includes:

Access to GPT-4 with 32K context window
Tools like DALL·E 3, GPT-4 with Vision, Browsing, Advanced Data Analysis—with higher message caps
No training on your business data or conversations
Secure workspace for your team
Create and share custom GPTs with your workspace
Admin console for workspace and team management
Early access to new features and improvements

We recently announced GPTs—custom versions of ChatGPT that you can create for a specific purpose with instructions, expanded knowledge, and custom capabilities. These can be especially useful for businesses and teams. With GPTs, you can customize ChatGPT to your team’s specific needs and workflows (no code required) and publish them securely to your team’s workspace. GPTs can help with a wide range of tasks, such as assisting in project management, team onboarding, generating code, performing data analysis, securely taking action in your existing systems and tools, or creating collateral to match your brand tone and voice. Today, we announced the GPT Store where you can find useful and popular GPTs from your workspace.

ChatGPT Team costs $25/month per user when billed annually, or $30/month per user when billed monthly. You can explore the details or get started now by upgrading in your ChatGPT settings.

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-team

Gilbane Advisor 1-10-24 — Complex docs and LLMs, data funnel costs

January 10, 2024 / Frank Gilbane

This week we feature articles from Hanane Dupouy, and Ilia Teimouri.

Additional reading comes from Dries Buytaert, Thomas Claburn, Scott Brinker, and Hugo Lu.

News comes from Figma & Adobe, Axel Springer & OpenAI, Franz, and Bloomreach & Spryker.

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

Opinion / Analysis

Discover DocLLM: The new LLM from JPMorgan for working with complex documents

Lots going on in this area these days including similar approaches. Hanane Dupouy provides a useful summary, but you’ll also want to check out the paper and at least read the introduction. (5 min)

Summary: https://medium.com/@basics.machinelearning/discover-docllm-the-new-llm-from-jpmorgan-for-working-with-complex-documents-5f54ea287d52
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.00908.pdf

Illuminating insights: GPT extracts meaning from charts and tables

Ilia Teimouri covers the same topic but describes an application focused on using data from images in financial documents. Scroll down to see his impressive-looking results and explanation. If you’re technical there is a link to all his code on Github. (7 min)

https://towardsdatascience.com/illuminating-insights-gpt-extracts-meaning-from-charts-and-tables-a0b71c991d34

Content technology news

Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger

Fifteen months into the regulatory review process, Figma & Adobe no longer see a path toward regulatory approval of proposed acquisition.
https://www.figma.com/blog/figma-adobe-abandon-proposed-merger/

Franz Unveils AllegroGraph 8.0

Neuro-Symbolic AI Platform incorporates LLM components into SPARQL with vector generation and vector storage for Knowledge Graph solutions.
https://allegrograph.com/new-allegrograph-v8-neuro-symbolic-ai-platform/

Axel Springer and OpenAI partner to deepen beneficial use of AI in journalism

ChatGPT users will get summaries of selected global news from Axel Springer’s media brands including POLITICO, BUSINESS INSIDER, BILD & WELT.
https://www.axelspringer.com/en/ax-press-release/axel-springer-and-openai-partner-to-deepen-beneficial-use-of-ai-in-journalism

Bloomreach partners with Spryker to expand composable commerce

Bloomreach users can leverage Spryker’s composable, API based functionalities to constantly improve their digital and marketplace experience.
https://www.bloomreach.com/en/news/2023/bloomreach-partners-with-spryker-to-unlock-a-new-level-of-composable-commerce ■ https://spryker.com

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Argo Translation launches CMSConnect

January 9, 2024 / NewsShark

Argo Translation, a Chicago-based language services company, announced today the launch of CMSConnect for digital platforms. CMSConnect (Cross-Platform Multilingual Suite) connects source content seamlessly from numerous PIM, CMS, CRM, and DAM platforms for translation into nearly any language.

CMSConnect enables companies to accelerate the delivery of digital content to international markets that require high speed to market and internally when communicating to a diverse employee base that speaks different languages.

CMSConnect supports many digital platforms, including Akeneo, InRiver, SharePoint, SiteCore, Kentico, Umbraco, Adobe Experience Manager, HubSpot, SFDC, and WordPress. It delivers the same promise for every platform supported – to make translation easy by enabling the translation of content into nearly any language using a platform’s native features. Argo Translation’s solution aims at eCommerce and product management professionals who are required to manage an extensive product catalog efficiently, HR professionals who need timely communications to non-native English-speaking employees via their employee website, and marketing professionals who need to connect with international audiences at the speed of their market.

https://www.argotrans.com/argo-translation-launches-cmsconnect

Digimarc offers free digital watermark embedding and detection tools to device and chip manufacturers and content creation platforms

January 4, 2024 / NewsShark

Digimarc announced they are now offering device manufacturers, chip manufacturers, and content creation platforms free access to its Secure, Automated, Fair, and Efficient (SAFE) digital watermark embedding and detection tools for digital assets, to protect digital content owners and consumers.

In addition to gaining compliance with upcoming global regulations, device manufacturers (camera, smartphone, tablet, laptop, and more) and content platforms can now offer content creators native (on-device or in-platform) tools to bind authenticity and ownership information to digital assets by embedding digital watermarks before assets are published, while also protecting manifests based on the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) standard. These manifests are often stripped from content when uploaded to content libraries, websites, or published on social media.

Last month, Digimarc introduced an open-source web browser extension to validate and display digital asset manifests based on the C2PA standard. The new Content Credentials Chrome extension allows content consumers to check images for C2PA manifests – adding a Content Credentials pin (“CR”) to the image if a manifest is present. The web browser extension is now available in the Chrome Web Store.

https://www.digimarc.com/press-releases/2024/01/04/digimarc-offers-free-digital-watermark-embedding-and-detection-tools

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