This week we feature articles from Vincent Koc, and Mike Dillinger. Additional reading comes from Stanford HAI, Kunal Sawarkar, Avi Chawla, and The Linux Foundation. News comes from Adobe, NebulaGraph, ThoughtSpot, and expert ai. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis The GenAI Compass: a UX framework to design generative AI experiences Vincent Koc’s comprehensive framework is a must read for teams building GenAI applications. (17 min) https://uxdesign.cc/the-genai-compass-a-ux-framework-to-design-generative-ai-experiences-49a7d797c114 ..read more

Adobe announced that the all-new Adobe Express mobile app is available to all users, bringing features powered by Adobe Firefly generative AI directly into the hands of content creators. The new Adobe Express mobile app brings Adobe’s photo, design, video and generative AI capabilities into an all-in-one content editor, giving everyone the ability to produce high quality content on web and mobile. Marketers can create explainer and promotional videos to launch new products or design on-brand social campaigns for multiple social channels. Small business owners can design logos and standout busi ..read more

As a member of Linked Data Benchmark Council, Vesoft (NebulaGraph) participates in the formulation and promotion of GQL standards and announced its GQL native support in NebulaGraph Enterprise v5.0. ISO/IEC released the international standard of Graph Query Language (GQL) on April 12th, 2024. This publication establishes the foundations for property graphs, covering their creation, maintenance, and control, along with the data they comprise. It also standardizes the data management language for outlining and modifying the structure of these graphs and their collections. GQL standards ..read more

ThoughtSpot, an AI-powered analytics company, today announced a series of initiatives for developers and product builders to help their customers, partners, and employees with generative AI and embedded natural language search, including a new pricing edition, a Vercel Marketplace listing, support channels, and new courses and certifications.  ThoughtSpot has renamed the embedded solution, previously known as ThoughtSpot Everywhere to ThoughtSpot Embedded, reflecting ThoughtSpot’s vision to make analytics invisible – seamlessly embedded into every data application ..read more

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This week we feature articles from Kurt Cagle, and Caleb Sponheim & Megan Brown. Additional reading comes from Tom Krazit, Dean Allemang, and Andrew Zuo. News comes from Progress Software, Adobe, Google Workspace, and MongoDB. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis RAG, context and knowledge graphs “These factors combine to make knowledge graphs powerful tools for managing large language models, while at the same time LLMs can be used to simplify the process of querying these databases.” Kurt Cagle does a nice job describing the re ..read more

Snippets from the Google Workspace blog… Today we’re announcing the next wave of enhancements to Google Workspace, starting with Google Vids, our new AI-powered video creation app for work. Vids will sit alongside our other productivity tools like Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Vids is being released to Workspace Labs in June. We’re also announcing two commercial offers that allow you to bring AI-powered meetings and messaging, as well as AI-powered security, to everyone in your organization, each for $10 per user, per month. In addition, Gemini is coming to Google Chat in preview, giving you an AI ..read more

This week we feature articles from Dean Allemang, and Daniel Tunkelang. Additional reading comes from Tim O’Reilly, Bob DuCharme, and Hugo Bowne-Anderson. News comes from DataStax & Langflow, Vesoft NebulaGraph, Searchspring, and Bridgeline. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis LLMs and knowledge — the study continues “… if we think that a knowledge graph and an LLM work better together than an LLM alone, we should do a bake-off; set up a problem for the LLM+Knowledge Graph to solve, and let the LLM+Relational Database work on th ..read more

Vesoft announced the latest update to the NebulaGraph Enterprise v3.7.0, featuring two modules: the Knowledge Graph Build (beta) and the AI Assistant. These functions invite users to experience firsthand the seamless integration of graph technology and Large Language Models (LLMs) at a product level. In the v3.7.0 of the NebulaGraph Enterprise, the KG Build function streamlines the creation of knowledge graphs by connecting to LLMs, automatically processing uploaded file data, transforming it into a knowledge graph, and storing it in the database. This new process reduces manpower and resource ..read more

Searchspring, a platform for ecommerce site search, product merchandising, and ecommerce personalization, announced today it has acquired Intelligent Reach, a UK-headquartered, full-service data feed management software provider trusted by brands such as HP, Asics, Avon Cosmetics, Black and Decker, Seraphine, and Burberry. Purpose-built for ecommerce, merchants use the Searchspring platform to facilitate better product discovery through semantic site search capabilities and flexible product merchandising, which includes business rules as well as AI-driven campaigns. The Searchspring personaliz ..read more