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Syncro Soft releases Oxygen AI Positron Assistant 3.0

September 5, 2024 /

Version 3.0 increases the efficiency of using the tool as certain actions now leverage the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) process to obtain context from the users’ current projects.

The new AI Positron Assistant drop-down widget offers a convenient way of accessing useful AI actions by displaying a floating contextual menu directly within the editing area. Users can customize their own AI actions to display as Quick Assist fixes in the editor. It is also now possible to choose the OpenAI model used in chat sessions and actions right from the AI Positron Assistant view.

A variety of new AI actions that are specific to working with DITA XML documents have been implemented, including a Proofread action that helps users identify potential issues in their content regarding logical consistency, grammar, spelling, readability, and comprehension.

Other newly implemented actions include the Improve Structure action that instructs the AI to enhance DITA XML documents by adding additional structure or inline elements, and the Add Structured Content action continues the content from a document with additional structured content generated based upon similar content from the current project, which gives the AI more context for formulating the new XML structure.

 https://www.oxygenxml.com/ai_positron_assistant.html

Anthropic announces Claude for Enterprise

September 4, 2024 /

Anthropic announced the Claude Enterprise plan to help organizations securely collaborate with Claude using internal knowledge. The Claude Enterprise plan offers an expanded 500K context window, more usage capacity, and a native GitHub integration so you can work on entire codebases with Claude. It also includes enterprise-grade security features—like SSO, role-based permissions, and admin tooling—that help protect your data and team.

With Claude, your organization’s knowledge is easier to share and reuse, enabling every individual on the team to quickly and consistently produce their best work. At the same time, your data is protected. We do not train Claude on your conversations and content. By integrating Claude with your organization’s knowledge, you can scale expertise across more projects, decisions and teams.

When you combine expanded context windows with Projects and Artifacts, Claude becomes an end-to-end solution to help your team take any initiative from idea to high-quality work output. For example, marketers can turn market trends into a compelling campaign. Product managers can upload product specifications for Claude to build an interactive prototype. Engineers can connect codebases for help on troubleshooting errors and identifying optimizations.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-enterprise

Couchbase expands cloud database platform with Capella Columnar and vector search

September 3, 2024 /

Couchbase, Inc. launched Capella Columnar on AWS, to help organizations streamline the development of adaptive applications by enabling real-time data analysis alongside operational workloads within a single database platform. Also generally available today is Couchbase Mobile with vector search, which makes it possible for customers to offer similarity and hybrid search in their applications on mobile and at the edge, and Capella Free Tier, a free developer environment.

Capella Columnar addresses the challenge of parsing, transforming and persisting JSON data into an analysis-ready columnar format. It supports real-time, multisource ingestion of data from Couchbase, and systems like Confluent Cloud to draw data from third-party JSON or SQL systems. Capella Columnar makes analysis easy by using Capella iQ, an AI coding assistant that writes SQL++ so the developer doesn’t need to wait for the BI team to run analytics for them. Once an important metric is calculated, it can be written back to the operational side of Capella, which can use the metric within the application.

Using vector search on-device with Couchbase Lite, the embedded database for mobile and IoT applications, mobile developers can now leverage vector search at the edge for building semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications.

https://www.couchbase.com/blog/free-tier-capella-columnar-mobile-vector-search-and-more/

Elastic returns to open source license for Elasticsearch and Kibana

August 29, 2024 /

Elastic, a Search AI Company, announced that it is adding the GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPL) as an option for users to license the free part of the Elasticsearch and Kibana source code that is available under Server Side Public License 1.0 (SSPL 1.0) and Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2).

With the addition of AGPL, an open source license approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), Elasticsearch and Kibana will be officially considered open source and enable Elastic’s customers and community to use, modify, redistribute, and collaborate on Elastic’s source code under a well-known open source license.

Adding AGPL will also enable greater engagement and adoption across our users in areas including vector search, further increasing the popularity of Elasticsearch as a runtime platform for RAG and building GenAI applications.

The addition of AGPL as a license option does not affect existing users working with either SSPL or ELv2, and there will be no change to Elastic’s binary distributions. Similarly, for users building applications or using plugins on Elasticsearch or Kibana, nothing changes — Elastic’s client libraries will continue to be licensed under Apache 2.0.

https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-is-open-source-again

Microsoft introduces Bing generative search

July 24, 2024 /

From The Microsoft Bing Blog…

… Today, we’re excited to share an early view of our new generative search experience which is currently shipping to a small percentage of user queries …

This new experience combines the foundation of Bing’s search results with the power of large and small language models (LLMs and SLMs). It understands the search query, reviews millions of sources of information, dynamically matches content, and generates search results in a new AI-generated layout to fulfill the intent of the user’s query more effectively.

We’ve refined our methods to optimize accuracy in Bing, applying those insights as we continue to evolve our use of LLMs in search. We are continuing to look closely at how generative search impacts traffic to publishers. Early data indicates that this experience maintains the number of clicks to websites and supports a healthy web ecosystem. The generative search experience is designed with this in mind, including retaining traditional search results and increasing the number of clickable links, like the references in the results. 

We are slowly rolling this out and will take our time, garner feedback, test and learn, and work to create a great experience before making this more broadly available.

https://blogs.bing.com/search/July-2024/generativesearch

LambdaTest integrates with Netlify to enhance developer workflows

July 23, 2024 /

LambdaTest, a cloud-based unified testing platform, announced its partnership with Netlify, a platform for businesses to build performant and dynamic websites, ecommerce stores, and web apps. This collaboration aims to enhance the testing capabilities of developers, enabling them to deliver high-quality web applications more efficiently. 

Developers get an exhaustive list of cloud-based testing solutions, including cross-browser compatibility testing, Web and App automation testing, and Real Device testing. Netlify users can integrate testing into their continuous deployment workflows and ensure comprehensive testing of their web applications before deployment through integration with LambdaTest.

The LambdaTest omnichannel enterprise execution environment helps businesses reduce time to market through Just in Time Test Orchestration (JITTO), ensuring quality releases and accelerated digital transformation.

  • Browser & App Testing Cloud allows users to run both manual and automated tests of web and mobile apps across 3000+ different browsers, real devices, and operating system environments.
  • HyperExecute helps customers run and orchestrate test grids in the cloud for any framework and programming language at blazing-fast speeds to cut down on quality test time, helping developers build software faster.

https://www.lambdatest.com

DeepL launches LLM focused on translation quality and performance

July 17, 2024 /

DeepL, a global Language AI company, announced its next-generation language model, powered by a highly-specialized LLM technology built specifically for translation and editing to outperform competitors. The update enhances translation quality and performance in DeepL’s Language AI platform for businesses:

  • A specialized LLM: the DeepL solution leverages an LLM uniquely tuned for language, resulting in more human-like translations and writing for a variety of use cases with a reduced risk of hallucinations and misinformation.
  • Proprietary data: unlike general purpose models that simply train on the public internet, the DeepL model leverages over seven years of proprietary data specifically tuned for content creation and translation.
  • Human model tutoring: with a focus on quality, the DeepL model leverages thousands of hand-picked language experts specifically trained to “tutor” the model to best-in-class translation.

Translations using the next-gen model are available for DeepL Pro customers for translations in English, Japanese, German, and Simplified Chinese, with additional languages coming soon. The LLM can be activated within the web translator by selecting “next-gen model”. DeepL Pro users are protected by enterprise-grade security and compliance standards (ISO 27001 certification, GDPR/SOC 2 type 2 compliance), and no Pro translations are ever used to train its models.

https://www.deepl.com/en/press-release#2GYyHCVU8bjbu1iewCwLLx

Optimizely launches SaaS CMS

July 16, 2024 /

Optimizely, a digital experience platform (DXP) provider, announced the launch of its SaaS CMS, featuring the all-new Visual Builder. The new products provide customers the ability to choose between SaaS and PaaS solutions depending on their organizational and business needs.  

Visual Builder lets marketers build personalized experiences with a sleek interface, customizable elements, and an interactive preview that are designed to bolster engagement and conversion. Visual Builder removes technical barriers to creating dynamic content, and encourages content reuse.

With the suite of CMS capabilities, marketers can spend less time relying on developers and instead focus on creativity and:

  • Drag, drop and customize layouts with ease for seamless brand alignment. 
  • Easily structure and configure content to drive engaging user journeys and deliver the right message at the right time. 
  • Centralize management of websites, apps and more, all in one place. 
  • Drive content reuse and efficiency with blueprints. 
  • Tailor approval processes to fit team dynamics and project needs. 

Today’s announcement also includes expanding the capabilities of Optimizely Graph, a set of APIs that enables digital teams to easily access and repurpose content from multiple sources and deliver it everywhere. The solution now offers faceted and fuzzy search functionalities.

https://www.optimizely.com/products/content-management

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