This week we feature articles from Kurt Cagel, and Tula Masterman.

Additional reading comes from Michal Malewicz, Tari Ibaba, Eugen Rochko, Rachel Andrew, and Sara Fischer.

News comes from MongoDB, Magnolia, Movable Ink, and Optimizely.

Our next issue will arrive October 30.

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

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Opinion / Analysis

An imperfect Canvas … but an interesting first step

OpenAI… “We’re introducing canvas, a new interface for working with ChatGPT on writing and coding projects that go beyond simple chat. Canvas opens in a separate window, allowing you and ChatGPT to collaborate on a project. This early beta introduces a new way of working together—not just through conversation, but by creating and refining ideas side by side.” 

Kurt Cagel has taken Canvas for a spin, and describes his experience using the basic editing capabilities. (6 min)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/imperfect-canvas-interesting-first-step-kurt-cagle-1gwvc

AI agents: The intersection of tool calling and reasoning in generative AI

Tula Masterman’s article “… focuses on how reasoning is expressed through tool calling, explores some of the challenges of tool use, covers common ways to evaluate tool-calling ability, and provides examples of how different models and agents interact with tools.” is a valuable resource. Be sure to check out The Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard V3 she references. (11 min)

https://medium.com/towards-data-science/ai-agents-the-intersection-of-tool-calling-and-reasoning-in-generative-ai-ff268eece443

More Reading

• The Gaze Principle — Why most websites do it wrong via Michal Malewicz
• Nobody wants to use these HTML tags via Coding Beauty
• Mastodon 4.3 – New safety and discovery tools and a refreshed look via Mastodon Blog
• OpenAI and Hearst strike content deal via Axios
• New to the web platform in September via web.dev blog

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Content technology news

MongoDB releases MongoDB 8.0

The document database has performance improvements, reduced scaling costs, additional scalability, resilience, and data security capabilities.
https://www.mongodb.com/products/updates/version-release

Magnolia integrates Magnolia DXP with Veeva Vault PromoMats

Marketers can create digital experiences for multiple channels using MLR reviewed and approved assets in Veeva Vault PromoMats.
https://www.magnolia-cms.com

Movable Ink adds Da Vinci to Adobe Experience Cloud integrations

Joint customers can leverage their enterprise-specific data and campaign assets to inform the intelligent assembly and personalization of email templates and content variations.
https://movableink.com/adobe-and-movable-ink

Optimizely to acquire NetSpring

Optimizely’s DXP provides “warehouse native” analytics, enabling customers to tie experimentation and other digital experience activities to business metrics.
https://www.optimizely.com/netspring

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This week we feature articles from Michael Andrews, and Andréas Saudemont.

Additional reading comes from Marta Serra-Garcia & Uri Gneezy, Mike Loukides, and Merve Noyan, Philipp Schmid, Omar Sanseviero, Aritra Roy Gosthipaty, Lewis Tunstall, Vaibhav Srivastav & Pedro Cuenca.

News comes from Ai2, Contentstack, MindsDB, and Salesforce.

Our next issue will arrive October 9.

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Opinion / Analysis

Separating content and presentation: Moving past FUD

Michael Andrews argues this separation is more critical than ever, and that the decades old discussions about this topic “don’t account for the current changes reshaping today’s digital ecosystems (e.g., the development of design systems, structured content, and the shift to composable and headless architectures.)”. Andrews starts a more modern discussion. (21 min)

https://storyneedle.com/separating-content-and-presentation-moving-past-fud/

ScyllaDB implementation: Lists in Medium’s feature store, Part 2

Andréas Saudemont’s case-study/tutorial is useful for those curious about ScyllaDB, or anyone who has struggled with similar limitations of relational DBs — see his link to (a shorter) Part 1. (18 min)

https://medium.engineering/scylladb-implementation-lists-in-mediums-feature-store-part-2-905299c89392

More Reading

• Good resource… ML and LLM system design: 450 case studies to learn from via Evidently AI
• Llama can now see and run on your device – welcome Llama 3.2 via Hugging Face
• Improving human deception detection using algorithmic feedback. Timing matters unsurprisingly. via CESifo
• The AI Blues – Is AI getting worse? Or are we getting pickier via O’Reilly Radar

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Content technology news

Ai2 launches family of open multimodal models

Molmo goes beyond today’s most advanced multimodal models by creating open models that can now point and act in the visual world.
https://molmo.allenai.org/blog

Contentstack adds visual building capabilities to CMS

The composable digital experience platform (DXP) based on the enterprise headless CMS with Visual Builder accelerates workflows for marketers.
https://www.contentstack.com/platforms/visual-building

MindsDB launches conversational enterprise-ready AI

Designed to reason and orchestrate across real-time and historical enterprise data to answer natural language questions for AI applications and agents.
https://mindsdb.com/newsroom/mindsdb-launches-conversational-enterprise-ready-ai-that-shows-you-how-it-thinks

Salesforce to acquire Zoomin

Will accelerate the unlocking of unstructured data to power AI agents for more personalized and context-aware in every customer interaction.
https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/salesforce-signs-definitive-agreement-to-acquire-zoomin/

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This week we feature articles from Amanda Kau, and Sayash Kapoor & Arvind Narayanan.

Additional reading comes from Ben Dickson, Fulala Fulalasen, Cassie Kozyrkov, and Paul Sawers.

News comes from Brightspot, Adobe, Hubspot, and DeepL.

Our next issue will arrive October  2.

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Opinion / Analysis

Can AI automate computational reproducibility?

Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan tackle a critical issue…
“In a new paper, we introduce CORE-Bench (Computational Reproducibility Agent Benchmark), a benchmark for measuring how well AI can automate computational reproducibility, that is, reproducing a paper’s findings when the code and data are available.”

Introduction: (5 min) 
https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/can-ai-automate-computational-reproducibility
Full paper:
PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2409.11363v1
HTML: https://arxiv.org/html/2409.11363v1

Dynamic knowledge graphs: a next step for data representation?

How do you integrate temporal data into knowledge graphs? What’s the difference between dynamic knowledge graphs, temporal knowledge graphs, and discrete time dynamic graphs? What kinds of applications are they used for? And how do they work, or compete with, LLMs? Amanda Kau does a nice job addressing these and other questions. (9 min)

https://medium.com/@researchgraph/dynamic-knowledge-graphs-a-next-step-for-data-representation-c35a205a520a

More Reading

• For web developers who like to debate… Web crap has taken control via fulalas
• Apple aims for on-device user intent understanding with UI-JEPA models via VentureBeat
• Ouchy!… Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a ‘cancer to WordPress’ and urges community to switch providers via TechCrunch
• The LinkedIn optout AI scandal via Cassie Kozyrkov

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Content technology news

Brightspot announces latest version of their content management system

Updated CMS has expansive tech stack integrations, AI features that speed up creation time, and prioritizes streamlined content workflows.
https://www.brightspot.com

HubSpot launches Breeze, updates Marketing & Content Hubs

Breeze includes Copilot, an AI companion; Agents, AI experts who complete work from start to finish; 80+ AI features embedded across the platform.
https://www.hubspot.com/company-news/fall24-spotlight

DeepL announces glossary generator

Companies can create and manage custom translation glossaries so specific words or phrases are translated consistently according to their unique terminology.
https://www.deepl.com/en/translator

Adobe Experience Cloud updates help personalize and measure AI-generated content

New offerings enable brands to personalize AI-generated content variations across channels such as web and email to boost customer engagement.
https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/Adobe-Unveils-Innovations-in-Adobe-Experience-Cloud-for-Brands-to-Personalize-and-Measure-AI-generated-Content/default.aspx

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This week we feature articles from Alberto Romero, and Tony Seale

Additional reading comes from Mike Knoop, Emma Roth, Frederic Lardinois, and Michael Nuñez.

News comes from Cloudera, Adobe, Brightcove, and SearchStax & Magnolia.

Our next issue will arrive September 25.

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

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Opinion / Analysis

OpenAI o1: A new paradigm for AI

Alberto Romero provides a high-level yet in-depth explanation of OpenAI’s latest model that “reasons” and opines on what it means near and long-term. In spite of the presence of “paradigm” in the title, Romero does a nice job balancing enthusiasm and skepticism. A thoughtful read. (19 min)

https://www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/openai-o1-a-new-paradigm-for-ai

LLMs, faking, it and abductive reasoning

Tony Seale’s short post on three types of reasoning is good companion piece to Romero’s…

“A practical implementation of this [Ed.: abductive reasoning] might integrate the inductive curve-fitting capabilities of large language models with the formal inference mechanisms of knowledge graphs, creating a dynamic neural-symbolic loop.” (2 min – 9 including comments) 

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tonyseale_the-question-of-whether-large-language-models-activity-7237731298952302594-T0mN

More Reading

• Benchmark for the AGI-curious… OpenAI o1 results on ARC-AGI-Pub via ARC Prize
• AWS brings OpenSearch under the Linux Foundation umbrella via TechCrunch
• Google is using AI to make fake podcasts from your notes via The Verge
• Ambitious, ya think?… Salesforce’s AgentForce: The AI assistants that want to run your entire business via VentureBeat

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Content technology news

Cloudera adds Accelerators for Machine Learning Projects (AMPs)

AMPs are end-to-end machine learning (ML) based projects that can be deployed with a single-click directly from the Cloudera platform.
https://www.cloudera.com/about/news-and-blogs/press-releases/2024-09-12-cloudera-unveils-new-suite-of-accelerators-for-machine-learning-projects-amps.html

Adobe announces Adobe Express updates and special teams offer

New capabilities help SMBs create on-brand content across Marketing, HR and Sales accelerate content creation and work across teams.
https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/Adobe-Express-Updates-Deliver-More-Value-for-Solopreneurs-and-SMBs-with-Innovation-and-Special-Teams-Offer/default.aspx

Brightcove unveils Brightcove AI Suite

The Suite includes: AI Content Multiplier, AI Universal Translator, AI Metadata Optimizer, AI Engagement Maximizer, and AI Cost-to-Quality Optimizer.
https://campaigns.brightcove.com/ai-solutions/

SearchStax and Magnolia partner on personalized search solutions

Partnership helps marketers and developers by merging the search capabilities of SearchStax Site Search with Magnolia’s enterprise-grade DXP.
https://www.searchstax.com ■ https://www.magnolia-cms.com

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This week we feature articles from Aparna Dhinakaran, and Alex Russell.

Additional reading comes from Dries Buytaert, Bob DuCharme, Heather Hedden, and Kenrick Cai, Krystal Hu & Anna Tong.

News comes from Syncro Soft, Anthropic, Elastic, and Couchbase.

Our next issue will arrive September 18th.

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Opinion / Analysis

Navigating the new types of LLM agents and architectures

“How can teams navigate the new frameworks and new agent directions? What tools are available, and which should you use to build your next application? As a leader at a company that recently built our own complex agent to act as a copilot within our product, we have some insights on this topic.”

Aparna Dhinakaran’s piece is a useful update with some good advice for developers, product architects, and business analysts. (10 min)

https://towardsdatascience.com/navigating-the-new-types-of-llm-agents-and-architectures-309382ce9f88

Reckoning: Part 1 — the landscape

Alex Russell’s passionate and detailed “… investigation into JavaScript-first frontend culture and how it broke US public services…” exposes the high cost cost and poor user experience of widely-deployed web services in general.

The focus on public services provides powerful examples, and his web technology experience combine for a compelling case. There are four parts to his investigation – links to the other three are included. Part 1 is (4 min).

https://infrequently.org/2024/08/the-landscape

More Reading

• A focus on marketers… Introducing Drupal Starshot’s product strategy via Dries Buytaert
• Taxonomies and ontologies as semantic models via The Accidental Taxonomist
• OpenAI co-founder Sutskever’s safety-focused AI startup SSI raises $1 billion, three-months-old and valued at $5 billion via Reuters
• Editing schemas, ontologies, and SKOS taxonomies with VocBench, a free GUI tool. via Bob DuCharme

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Content technology news

Anthropic announces Claude for Enterprise

Claude Enterprise includes an expanded 500K context window, more usage capacity, a native GitHub integration, and enterprise-grade security features.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-for-enterprise

Syncro Soft releases Oxygen AI Positron Assistant 3.0

The tool supports AI-generated content within Oxygen XML Editor/Author/Developer, Oxygen XML Web Author, and Oxygen Content Fusion.
https://www.oxygenxml.com/ai_positron_assistant.html

Elastic returns to open source license for Elasticsearch and Kibana

With the addition of AGPL, an open source license approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), Elasticsearch & Kibana will be officially considered open source.
https://www.elastic.co/blog/elasticsearch-is-open-source-again

Couchbase expands cloud database platform with Capella Columnar and vector search

Helps streamline development of adaptive applications by enabling real-time data analysis alongside operational workloads in a single database platform.
https://www.couchbase.com/blog/free-tier-capella-columnar-mobile-vector-search-and-more/

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This week we feature articles from Kurt Cagle, and Lynn Wu & Sam Ransbotham.

Additional reading comes from Kayleigh Barber & Seb Joseph, Emma Roth, Tari Ibaba, and Cassie Kozyrkov.

News comes from Microsoft, LambdaTest, DeepL, and Optimizely.

As usual, we will be off in August. Our next issue will arrive September 11.

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Opinion / Analysis

The emergence of Markdown

Kurt Cagle published a piece on Markdown that is useful whether you know about Markdown or not, as it is increasingly popular in web applications, and being used in ways that may surprise (ChatGPT). A good read for either a passing familiarity, or a more detailed update. (8 min)

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/emergence-markdown-kurt-cagle-b0qbc

Can AI help your company innovate? it depends

As business school professors Lynn Wu and Sam Ransbotham address this question with research on what companies are doing with AI, and an analysis of what types of processes and products can effectively contribute to innovation. Managers will appreciate this paper as a complement to the more technical articles they also need to read. (7 min)

https://hbr.org/2024/07/can-ai-help-your-company-innovate-it-depends

More Reading

• Giving up… After years of uncertainty, Google says it won’t be ‘deprecating third-party cookies’ in Chrome via Digiday
• Reddit is now blocking major search engines and AI bots — except the ones that pay. Google that is. via The Verge
• OpenAI testing SearchGPT prototype via OpenAI
• Frontender happiness… New HTML tag: An absolute game changer via Coding Beauty
• AI security and a16z: Crawling with badness. Find out which kind, via Cassie Kozyrkov

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Content technology news

Microsoft introduces Bing generative search

The new experience combines the foundation of Bing’s search results with the power of large and small language models (LLMs and SLMs).
https://blogs.bing.com/search/July-2024/generativesearch

LambdaTest integrates with Netlify to enhance developer workflows

Integration provides a comprehensive solution for high-quality web applications with seamless deployment workflows across environments and devices.
https://www.lambdatest.com

DeepL launches LLM focused on translation quality and performance

The LLM is uniquely tuned for language and human-like translations and writing with a reduced risk of hallucinations and misinformation.
https://www.deepl.com/en/press-release#2GYyHCVU8bjbu1iewCwLLx

Optimizely launches SaaS CMS

The CMS features a new Visual Builder to build personalized experiences with customizable elements and an interactive preview. 
https://www.optimizely.com/company/press/saas-cms-visual-builder/

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This week we feature articles from Alexey Evdokimov, and Devansh.

Additional reading comes from Joan Westenberg, Dan McCreary, Scott Brinker, and Andrew Deck.

News comes from Franz, TransPerfect, Syncro Soft, and Foxit.

Our next issue will arrive July 31.

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Opinion / Analysis

“GenAI Squared.” How can a product avoid the downfall of most LLM-driven startups?

Alexey Evdokimov…
“This article aim[s] to explore innovative LLM utilization strategies that could help a new GenAI product survive in this fiercely competitive landscape… Before we dive into that, let’s examine the ways of using LLM which are more likely to steer a startup towards failure.”

Definitely worth a read by anyone involved in AI product strategy. This is Evdokimov’s second of three posts on the topic. (9 min)

https://ai.gopubby.com/genai-squared-how-can-a-product-avoid-the-downfall-of-most-llm-driven-startups-183619ab7883

The limitations of math, big data, and what it means for AGI

Devansh provides a unique and compelling case for scaling back expectations of AGI. His article argument is also relevant the utility of LLMs and AI products in general, not just AGI. (15 min)

https://artificialintelligencemadesimple.substack.com/p/the-limitations-of-math-big-data

More Reading

• ChatGPT is hallucinating fake links to its news partners’ biggest investigations via Nieman Journalism Lab
• Convergent evolution of GenAI and knowledge graphs via via Dan McCreary
• WTF Quora: how a platform eats itself via Joan Westenberg
• The new data layer in martech has taken hold as the foundation upon which marketing AI will be built via chiefmartec

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Content technology news

TransPerfect introduces GlobalLink Live

With GlobalLink Live audiences can consume live speech at large events, group meetings, or one-on-one in their preferred language regardless of the source language.
https://globallink.transperfect.com

Foxit updates PDF SDK for Web 10.0

The PDF SDK update is focused on a more streamlined and efficient user experience, enhanced productivity tools, and added functionality.
https://www.foxit.com

Franz announces AllegroGraph 8.2

ChatStream with AllegroGraph’s Neuro-Symbolic AI capabilities unlocks contextual enterprise knowledge through text queries with long-term Memory.
https://franz.com

Syncro Soft releases Oxygen Content Fusion 7.0

The new version includes a personal authoring workspace where you can make changes across multiple files and commit them directly to the repository.
https://www.oxygenxml.com/content_fusion/whats_new.html

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This week we feature articles from Sayash Kapoor & Arvind Narayanan, and Daniil Gurgurov, Tanja Bäumel & Tatiana Anikina.

Additional reading comes from Sanjeev Mohan, Amber Case, and Michael Andrews.

News comes from RWS, GraphAware & Senzing, Elastic, and Box.

Our next issue will arrive July 17.

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Opinion / Analysis

AI scaling myths

Scaling will run out. The question is when.

Sayash Kapoor and Arvind Narayanan shed light on a number of misconceptions or unstudied assumptions while answering the question.  (8 min)

https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-scaling-myths

Multilingual large language models and curse of multilinguality

“This paper aims to provide a brief overview of the architectures of the most prominent multilingual LLMs, including details such as their pre-training objective functions, data sources, tokenization schemas, the number of languages supported, and the peculiarities of each individual multilingual LLM. Subsequently, the primary challenge facing multilingual LLMs, known as the “curse of multilinguality” Conneau et al. (2020), and the current attempts to solve it, are discussed.”

This paper by Daniil Gurgurov, Tanja Bäumel, and Tatiana Anikina is a comprehensive and current update on multilingual LLM tools and challenges. (18 min)

Semantic Scholar link: https://www.semanticscholar.org/reader/2235420149c8f839e29d4cf8df1894d7a9f3de37
arXiv HTML and clean PDF link: https://arxiv.org/html/2406.10602v1

More Reading

• Coping with copies: Strategic dimensions of reuse and duplication via Story Needle
• Useful analysis with references to Snowflake… Databricks Data & AI 2024 Summit via Sanjeev Mohan
• Reducing cognitive load… Apple’s approach to AI should rewrite the industry’s expectations for the technology via Amber Case

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Content technology news

RWS launches Trados Studio 2024

The latest version includes advanced AI capabilities and a plethora of new features to boost productivity and increase translation quality.
https://www.trados.com

Elastic introduces Playground to accelerate RAG development with Elasticsearch

The new interface enables developers to iterate and build RAG applications for A/B testing LLMs, tuning prompts and chunking data.
https://www.elastic.co/search-labs/blog/rag-playground-introduction

Graph analytics enhanced by GraphAware & Senzing

The partnership integrates Senzing entity resolution capabilities into GraphAware Hume, GraphAware’s graph-based enterprise intelligence platform.
https://senzing.com/graph-analytics-graphaware/

Box enhances Box AI for intelligent content management

Enterprises to get unlimited access to Box AI in Notes, Documents, and Hubs, GPT-4o Integration in Hubs, new file types, and developer tools.
https://blog.box.com/box-announces-powerful-enhancements-box-ai-intelligent-content-management

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