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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

DataStax announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire AI startup, Logspace, the creators of Langflow, an open source visual framework for building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications. Langflow makes it easier and faster for any developer, experienced or new, to build Generative AI applications using Python-based composable building blocks and pre-built components, which can be combined in numerous ways. With its easy-to-use, drag-and-drop visual environment and rapid iteration of data flows, Langflow makes it simpler for any developer to build LangChain-based R ..read more

Bridgeline Digital, Inc. announced that Smart Search by HawkSearch, featuring AI powered concept and image search with Generative AI (GenAI) capabilities, is now available to the general public. Smart Search leverages the latest advancements in AI, including large language models (LLMs) and vector databases, to enhance online shopping search functionality. Smart Search includes: Concept Search understands the intent behind a customer’s search to find products that are more relevant to the customer’s needs. A customer can describe what they need to automatically create a shopping list. For exa ..read more

This week we feature articles from Mike Masnick, and Andrés Monroy-Hernández. Additional reading comes from Ahren E. Lehnert, Kola Ayonrinde, Nathan Lambert, and Gary Marcus. News comes from Databricks, Adobe & Microsoft, TransPerfect & TheSpeech, and Ontotext. All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index Opinion / Analysis Why Bluesky remains the most interesting experiment in social media, by far “Bluesky… has recently both opened up federation, but even more interestingly it has abstracted out the moderation layer (along with open sourcing tooling f ..read more

TransPerfect, a provider of language and AI solutions for global business, today announced that it has acquired TheSpeech, a remote simultaneous interpretation platform for multilingual events. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. TheSpeech’s self-service platform enables customers to have their live events interpreted from multiple source languages to multiple target languages and broadcast live to any size audience, anywhere around the world. Key features of TheSpeech include: Support for live, online, and hybrid events 150+ languages Closed captions for deaf and hard-of-h ..read more