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Clarifai and Deepgram announce partnership

March 18, 2024 /

Clarifai, an AI platform provider, announced a strategic partnership with Deepgram, a vendor of automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology. This strategic alliance combines Deepgram’s speech-to-text models with Clarifai’s platform for building and deploying AI. It offers developers, teams, and organizations a fast way to build AI applications with voice.

The partnership focuses on Deepgram’s speech-to-text technology, known for its high accuracy and adaptability across various industries, with Clarifai’s AI platform, that simplifies the process of creating and deploying Large Language Models (LLMs), data labeling, and modeling unstructured image, video, text, and audio data. By integrating Deepgram’s expertise into the Clarifai platform, developers can now harness the power of accurate speech recognition, opening new possibilities for voice-driven AI applications.

https://www.clarifai.com/press-release/clarifai-and-deepgram-announce-strategic-partnership

RWS launches the Component Content Alliance (CCA)

March 18, 2024 /

RWS, a provider of technology-enabled language, content and intellectual property solutions, announces the launch of the Component Content Alliance (CCA), a global community that brings together content experts, thought leaders and technical professionals to collaborate, share insights and drive innovation in component content development. 

The CCA, which first launched with a LinkedIn Community, offers members exclusive access to webinars, conferences and workshops where industry leaders share insights and best practice across a range of topics related to component content. Open collaboration is encouraged through discussions, shared resources and joint projects. 

The alliance also offers members access to the CCA Hub, a collection of educational resources and industry events where professionals can help collectively shape the future of content componentization and structured content authoring. Members also gain access to a comprehensive repository of aggregated content to leverage in their own organizations. 

https://www.rws.com/about/news/2024/rws-launches-component-content-alliance/

Deepgram launches Aura, a text-to-speech API for real-time, conversational voice AI agents

March 12, 2024 /

Deepgram, a provider of speech recognition, natural language processing, and generative AI solutions, announced the public release of Aura, a text-to-speech (TTS) API that delivers human-like quality conversation. Aura is designed for developers who want to build real-time, conversational voice AI agents that can interact with customers, employees, and other users in a natural and engaging way. 

Aura can generate speech from any text input, including responses from LLMs like ChatGPT, in fractions of a second. This enables fluid and natural-sounding conversations with AI agents that can handle complex and dynamic scenarios. Aura offers a selection of diverse voices strongly suited for conversational use cases and preferences requiring the highest degrees of safety, security, speed, and scale.

Aura complements Deepgram’s Nova-2 speech-to-text API. With this release, Deepgram offers developers a complete voice AI platform, giving them the essential building blocks they need – from transcription to sentiment analysis to voice synthesis – to build high throughput, real-time AI agents of the future.

https://deepgram.com/learn/aura-text-to-speech-tts-api-voice-ai-agents-launch

Apache Software Foundation announces Apache Wicket v10

March 12, 2024 /

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announced Apache Wicket v10.0. Apache Wicket is an open source Java framework that enables developers to create feature rich websites and applications quickly while also using less code.

Since 2006, Apache Wicket has been a go-to framework for elegant, responsive, and simple HTML pages that are well suited for web designers seeking to test the applications they are building. By leveraging the latest features of Java 17 and the specifications of Jakarta Servlet, Apache Wicket 10.0 is a stable and mature framework for web and application developers seeking an efficient way to implement large codebases. Apache Wicket powers thousands of web applications and websites and is utilized worldwide. Apache Wicket 10.0 includes 20 new features, bug fixes and improvements while continuing to support the latest Java technologies. Key highlights of Apache Wicket 10.0 include:

  • To improve JPMS adoption, Apache Wicket 10.0 introduces the new module wicket-tester containing common classes for unit testing. Users of class WicketTester must now include this module as test dependency;
  • Apache Wicket now includes HTTP2 support within the wicket core module; and
  • ByteBuddy has replaced CGLib for creating serializable proxies for classes.

https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/apache-software-foundation-announces-apache-wicket-v10

Brightcove announces web-based video editing tool

March 12, 2024 /

Brightcove announced it has added web-based video editing capabilities to its streaming technology platform. The new core functionality will add easy-to-use editing that accelerates video creation, management, and publishing workflows. 

Designed to serve the needs of publishers, marketing, social media, HR, and communications professionals, the editing functionality is designed for anyone to use, helping all users leverage its full potential, regardless of their level of video expertise. Brightcove’s web-based video editor allows customers to create content from start to finish within the streaming platform. customers can:

  • Create “snackable” content from longer videos: Repurpose existing video content by editing recordings into clips, highlight reels, or condensed versions for specific audiences. Users can trim and cut sections within larger videos or merge points to create new clips, reels, or highlights, and add graphics, logos, music, artwork.
  • Package Employee-Generated Content: Users can source and edit recordings from other contributors into a finalized video.
  • Develop Promotional Video Content: Edit video content with customizable templates for promotions, campaign purposes, and personalized content.
  • Edit video for various channels: Edit or crop brand-ready content to distribute to different channels for broader reach while meeting requirements for specific aspect ratios, including vertical videos.

https://www.brightcove.com/en/company/press/brightcove-launches-web-based-video-editor/

New Adobe Express mobile app brings Firefly generative AI models to mobile workflows

March 7, 2024 /

Adobe released the new Adobe Express mobile app for Android and iOS in beta with Adobe Firefly generative AI and new mobile editing capabilities that make it faster to turn creative ideas into standout content on-the-go. Adobe Express is powered by Adobe’s imaging, video and design technologies. Using the Adobe Express mobile app, Creative Cloud members can easily access, work on and edit creative assets from Photoshop and Illustrator directly within Adobe Express, or add linked files that sync in Adobe Express as they edit in Creative Cloud apps. Subscribers have full access to all premium features in Adobe Express across desktop web and mobile.

  • Text to Image: Quickly create a new look for a project by instantly generating new images with Firefly generative AI.
  • Generative Fill: Insert, remove or replace people, objects and more with simple text prompts.
  • Text Effects: Make attention-grabbing headlines, copy and messages that pop with text stylings using generative AI.
  • Video: Get started with unique templates, combine video clips, images and music, add animations, and generate real-time captions in 100+ languages – instantly.

The new Adobe Express mobile app in beta is available for free on Android and iOS devices.

https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2024/New-Adobe-Express-Mobile-App-Brings-Firefly-Generative-AI-Models-Directly-into-Mobile-Workflows-/default.aspx

Box integrates with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service

March 5, 2024 /

Box, Inc., a Content Cloud, announced a new integration with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service to bring its advanced large language models to Box AI. The integration of Azure OpenAI Service enables Box customers to benefit from the advanced AI models, while bringing Box and Microsoft’s enterprise standards for security, privacy, and compliance to this technology.  

Guided by its AI Principles, Box has built Box AI on the company’s platform-neutral framework, allowing it to connect with today’s large language models. By integrating with Azure OpenAI Service, Box is applying advanced intelligence models to its Content Cloud to advance enterprise-grade AI. Microsoft and Box already help customers meet strict compliance requirements like FINRA, GxP, and FedRAMP. With today’s announcement, they will also empower organizations across highly-regulated industries to leverage AI for new use cases.

Box AI, including the integration with Azure OpenAI Service, is generally available today, and is included in all Enterprise Plus plans, with individual users having access to 20 queries per month and 2,000 additional queries available on a company level.

https://www.boxinvestorrelations.com/news-and-media/news/press-release-details/2024/Box-Expands-its-Collaboration-with-Microsoft-with-New-Azure-OpenAI-Service-Integration/default.aspx

IBM announces availability of open-source Mistral AI Model on watsonx 

February 29, 2024 /

IBM announced the availability of the popular open-source Mixtral-8x7B large language model (LLM), developed by Mistral AI, on its watsonx AI and data platform, as it continues to expand capabilities to help clients innovate with IBM’s own foundation models and those from a range of open-source providers.

The addition of Mixtral-8x7B expands IBM’s open, multi-model strategy to meet clients where they are and give them choice and flexibility to scale enterprise AI solutions across their businesses.

Mixtral-8x7B was built using a combination of Sparse modeling — a technique that finds and uses only the most essential parts of data to create more efficient models — and the Mixture-of-Experts technique, which combines different models (“experts”) that specialize in and solve different parts of a problem. The Mixtral-8x7B model is widely known for its ability to rapidly process and analyze vast amounts of data to provide context-relevant insights.

This week, IBM also announced the availability of ELYZA-japanese-Llama-2-7b, a Japanese LLM model open-sourced by ELYZA Corporation, on watsonx. IBM also offers Meta’s open-source models Llama-2-13B-chat and Llama-2-70B-chat and other third-party models on watsonx.

https://newsroom.ibm.com/2024-02-29-IBM-Announces-Availability-of-Open-Source-Mistral-AI-Model-on-watsonx,-Expands-Model-Choice-to-Help-Enterprises-Scale-AI-with-Trust-and-Flexibility

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