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Delighted LLC, a subsidiary of experience management firm Qualtrics LLC, today is adding generative artificial intelligence-powered recommended questions to its survey tool. Delighted’s platform lets users create and manage surveys for customer, employee or product feedback. The service is particularly popular with …
Databricks open-sources its own large language model, DBRX
Databricks Inc. today launched DBRX, a general-purpose large language model that it says outperforms all existing open-source models — and some proprietary ones — on standard benchmarks. The company said it’s open-sourcing the model to encourage customers to migrate away from commercial alternatives. …
Neo4j, Microsoft add graph features to Azure AI services
Neo4j Inc. and Microsoft Corp. announced a collaboration today to integrate graph database features into Microsoft’s Fabric and Azure OpenAI services, with an aim to help users uncover patterns and relationships in structured and unstructured data that aren’t as easily visible in other …
Vectara adds anti-hallucination features to its generative AI service
Vectara Inc., the developer of a platform that organizations can use to train AI generative artificial intelligence models on their own data, today said it has added a factual consistency score metric to all responses trained by its service to assess their …
Zoom adds collaboration platform and expands AI support
In what the company said is one of the biggest announcements it will make this year, Zoom Video Communications Inc. today introduced Zoom Workplace, an artificial intelligence-enhanced collaboration platform that integrates with customers’ existing technology stacks and supports a wide range of …
Salesforce expands AI features in Service Cloud
Salesforce Inc. is strengthening artificial intelligence capabilities in its contact center-oriented Service Cloud to identify recurring issues better, recommend next steps based on customer feedback, help customer service agents resolve issues more quickly and upsell customers. The services use Einstein 1, a recently …
Circular.co raises $10.5M to facilitate recycling at large scale
Sustainable sourcing platform Circular Exchange Inc., which does business as Circular.co, said today it has raised $10.5 million to expand its database of post-consumer recycled materials and its platform for streamlining the purchase and sale of PCR materials. The company said it …
Startup Borderless AI nets $27M to bring generative AI to global hiring practices
Borderless AI Ventures Inc. launched today with $27 million in new funding and ambitions to use generative artificial intelligence to change how organizations hire and manage overseas employees. The company says its AI agent, Alberni, can solve complex problems and automate employment-related processes in …
Exclusive: Dymium launches with platform that takes protection to the data
Two-year-old data access management startup Dymium Inc. is emerging from stealth today with $7 million in seed funding and a data protection platform that works at the data element level, eliminating the need for duplication. Founded by three data security veterans, Dymium’s …
Snowflake documents huge growth in AI projects
Leveraging its unique perspective on how customers manage data on its platform, Snowflake Inc. today released a report on the changes it’s seen over the past year in data and tools usage as artificial intelligence has grabbed its customers’ attention. The analysis …