Category: Content creation and design (Page 3 of 66)

Technologies and strategies for authoring and editing, including word processors, structured editors, web and page layout and formatting, content conversion and migration, multichannel content, structured and unstructured data integration, and metadata creation.

Brightcove launches AI Content Suite

January 29, 2025 / NewsShark

Brightcove, a video engagement platform company, announced the launch of its AI Content Suite, the company’s first official general availability release following a customer pilot program in 2024. The suite introduces a range of AI-powered tools to increase the impact of video content, improve business productivity, make it an easier experience for content creators to get more from their content, and drive greater engagement across their audiences.

The Brightcove AI Content Suite includes three AI-powered capabilities – content creation, metadata optimization, and translation – which simplify video content production by automating the creation and optimization processes. Features:

Rapid, automated conversion of long-form content into engaging short-form clips, highlight reels, and theme-based chapters to maximize reach across channels
Conversion of horizontal video content into vertical formats to extend engagement with mobile viewers and across social platforms
Enhanced discoverability through auto-generated metadata (including titles, tags and descriptions), ensuring audiences find and engage with relevant content
Universal translation capabilities to dozens of languages to extend global reach and make content more accessible (coming soon).

Brightcove ensures tools in the AI Content Suite are backed by its security framework and pledges to never use customers’ content or personal data to train AI models without explicit consent.

https://www.brightcove.com/company/press/brightcove-launches-ai-content-suite-ga/

TransPerfect acquires H2A

January 23, 2025 / NewsShark

TransPerfect, a provider of language and AI solutions for global business, announced the acquisition of H2A, a French company providing contact center customer experience and business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions.

H2A provides inbound and outbound customer support, telemarketing, order processing, and technical support for industries including telecommunications, retail, finance, and public services. The company’s focus on operational efficiency and client satisfaction has enabled it to consistently improve customer engagement and streamline business operations for its clients.

Joining forces with H2A will enable TransPerfect to enhance its global business services and broaden support for clients with diverse language needs. H2A will continue to operate under its current leadership team, with General Manager Marilynn Genieyz and Operations Director Anne-Sophie Samet joining TransPerfect’s senior management team.

https://www.transperfect.com/about/press/transperfect-expands-global-contact-center-and-bpo-capabilities-acquisition-h2a

Perplexity introduces Sonar Pro API

January 21, 2025 / NewsShark

With Perplexity’s Sonar and Sonar Pro API (the latter generally available to all developers starting today), you can build your own generative search capabilities powered with real-time, web-wide research and Perplexity features. We’re also expanding public access to advanced features like JSON mode and search domain filters for select usage tiers.

The Sonar API is lightweight, affordable, fast, simple to use, and now includes citations and the ability to customize sources. It’s designed for companies who need to integrate lightweight question-and-answer features that are optimized for speed.

For enterprises seeking more advanced capabilities, the Sonar Pro API can handle in-depth, multi-step queries with added extensibility, like double the number of citations per search as Sonar on average. Plus, with a larger context window, it can handle longer and more nuanced searches and follow-up questions.

SimpleQA is the prevailing benchmark for factuality, designed to evaluate whether large language models can answer short, fact-seeking questions. Sonar Pro is a top-performing model on factuality because it combines the summarization power of LLMs with access to real-time information rather than relying on stored training data to answer questions.

https://docs.perplexity.ai/guides/getting-started

Contextual AI launches platform for building specialized RAG agents

January 15, 2025 / NewsShark

Contextual AI, an enterprise RAG company, announced the general availability (GA) of the Contextual AI Platform, helping enterprises build specialized RAG agents to support expert knowledge work.

While there is broad consensus that general-purpose AI agents are poised to streamline many generic tasks, Contextual AI believes that specialized RAG agents will instead be required to transform high-value, domain-specific knowledge work. For subject-matter experts in any organization, this means having AI tools that match their level of expertise and can be trusted to address complex or technical problems with confidence. Contextual AI has released public benchmark results demonstrating better performance in advanced RAG workflows across enterprise domains than Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and OpenAI’s GPT-4o.

The Contextual AI Platform includes all the capabilities needed to build, evaluate, and deploy specialized RAG agents, helping accelerate AI initiatives from pilot to production.

Enterprises can use the Contextual AI Platform to create specialized RAG agents that intelligently orchestrate retrieval and generation based on conversational context, delivering accurate responses for complex knowledge tasks across large corpora of structured and unstructured enterprise data. The Contextual AI Platform is powered by RAG 2.0, jointly optimizing the retriever and the generator in the RAG system.

https://contextual.ai/blog/contextual-ai-platform-generally-available/

Foxit launches standalone web-based AI platform

January 14, 2025 / NewsShark

Foxit, a provider of PDF and eSignature products and services, helping knowledge workers to increase their productivity and do more with documents, announced the launch of Foxit AI, a standalone web-based AI platform that delivers document-centric AI capabilities to users across industries.

Foxit AI offers a comprehensive suite of features, including AI-powered chat assistance, document and image analysis, advanced summarization, multilingual translation, text enhancement, and the ability to analyze multiple documents simultaneously. By combining intuitive design, cross-device accessibility, and seamless integration with Foxit’s broader ecosystem, Foxit AI empowers users across industries to streamline workflows, gain actionable insights, and maximize productivity.

Whether simplifying complex legal documents, generating concise summaries, or translating content for global audiences, Foxit AI is designed to provide an efficient, secure, and user-friendly solution tailored to modern document management challenges.

https://foxit.com

Contentstack acquires Lytics

January 8, 2025 / NewsShark

Contentstack, a composable digital experience platform (DXP) provider, today announced its acquisition of Lytics, a real-time customer data platform. The acquisition, which closed in December of 2024, brings comprehensive audience insights, content analytics and profile management to the Contentstack platform, unlocking real-time personalization for known and unknown users. Major global brands including Kraft Heinz, Mondelez, Glassdoor, Universal Music Group, LiveNation, Clorox and Ancestry will join the Contentstack customer community.

With the Lytics acquisition, Contentstack addresses the actionable first-party data activation side of the equation. The technology gives brands:

Real-time engagement data and audience insights for both known and unknown visitors.
The ability to easily create audience profiles and segments out-of-the-box.
A data activation layer that enables users to access and understand customer data and send it across preferred channels instantly.

The Lytics acquisition creates a combined entity with over 500 customers and 500 employees.

https://www.contentstack.com ■ https://www.lytics.com

Brightcove partners with Acquia

December 18, 2024 / NewsShark

Brightcove, a streaming technology company, is sharing enhancements to its platform through strategic partnerships to enhance the video content creation, distribution and monetization, and to help customers build more cohesive, easy-to-deploy martech stacks.

The relationship with Acquia is part of a broader initiative to co-sell and co-market integrated solutions that drive mutual customer success. For example, Brightcove has been able to grow its enterprise customer base across industries, including financial services, healthcare, travel and tourism, and technology, as well as media companies. With Brightcove’s capabilities integrated within Acquia’s DAM (digital asset management) and the Drupal CMS, system integrators and agency partners have a video solution to add to these digital experience platform (DXP) practices, especially for clients who leverage video as a critical part of their digital strategy.

Brightcove’s integration with Acquia DAM centralizes the storage and management of images, videos and documents, improving content deployment speeds. Brightcove’s APIs further extend the reach of Acquia’s capabilities, including the Brightcove Video Connect for Drupal. Customers can manage Brightcove video and players in their Drupal site from a single interface. Together, Brightcove and Acquia allow for a broader distribution of interactive video experiences that increase viewer engagement, and optimize marketing outcomes.

https://www.brightcove.com/en/company/press/brightcove-partners-with-acquia-to-benefit-customers

Grammarly to acquire Coda

December 17, 2024 / NewsShark

Grammarly, an AI assistant, announced its intent to acquire productivity platform Coda. Coda’s CEO and Co-Founder Shishir Mehrotra will become the CEO of Grammarly. The addition of Coda’s AI tools and surfaces aims to transform Grammarly into an AI productivity platform for apps and agents where customers can unlock access to company knowledge, generative AI chat, a productivity suite, and capable, trusted AI agents to work smarter and faster.

With this acquisition, Grammarly is increasingly focused on the future of how AI agents can, not only improve applications, but also benefit the entire enterprise with increased productivity. Grammarly understands the infrastructure needed to deploy it at scale and the value of integration across applications. Grammarly’s AI agents, include authorship, plagiarism detection, and proofreading.

Coda has spent the past few years perfecting Coda Docs, a flexible productivity suite. Most recently, they’ve introduced Coda Brain, which unlocks company knowledge across enterprise applications.

Grammarly and Coda products will continue to work the way customers know. Grammarly is focused on making its AI assistant smarter and more contextually aware with company knowledge from Coda Brain, enabling permission-aware connections with other systems and applications, from email and documents to CRM and project trackers.

https://coda.io/blog/about-coda/grammarly-acquires-coda ■ https://www.grammarly.com/blog/company/grammarly-acquires-coda

Category: Content creation and design (Page 3 of 66)

Brightcove launches AI Content Suite

TransPerfect acquires H2A

Perplexity introduces Sonar Pro API

Contextual AI launches platform for building specialized RAG agents

Foxit launches standalone web-based AI platform

Contentstack acquires Lytics

Brightcove partners with Acquia

Grammarly to acquire Coda

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