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Ken Yeung
HubSpot Is Cementing Its Bet on AI Search With XFunnel Acquisition
HubSpot is acquiring XFunnel, a startup building an AI-powered search optimization platform. Financial terms weren’t disclosed, but HubSpot says it plans to fold XFunnel’s technology into its Marketing Hub to give marketers deeper visibility into how their brands surface in AI assistants and apps such as ChatGPT and Perplexity. “As AI changes how people find […]
Canva’s New Design Model and AI Assistant Aim to Power a ‘Creative Operating System’
Canva is staking its claim as the operating system of creativity. The company today took a big step towards that goal with the introduction of new tools that bring together design, AI, and marketing to better connect every part of the creative process. A key pillar of the visual communication platform’s “Creative Operating System” is […]
Zoom Turns to Nvidia’s Nemotron to Power Its AI Companion and New 49B-Parameter LLM
Zoom has partnered with Nvidia to add the chipmaker’s Nemotron technology to its federated AI architecture. The integration aims to strengthen Zoom’s AI Companion, enabling it to support better those organizations in finance, healthcare, and government—all regulated spaces. In addition, Nemotron is being used to fine-tune a new 49-billion-parameter Large Language Model (LLM). “With the […]
ServiceNow and Nvidia Unveil Apriel 2.0, a Compact Open Model Made for Regulated Industries
ServiceNow and Nvidia have introduced Apriel 2.0, the latest version of their jointly-developed Apriel Nemotron open model. It boasts improved reasoning, native support for multimodal input, and built-in data and safety guardrails. However, unlike its predecessor, which was a general-purpose foundation model, Apriel 2.0 is explicitly designed for autonomous and semi-autonomous agents operating in regulated […]
Google Labs and DeepMind Launch Pomelli, an AI Tool for SMB Marketing Campaigns
Google Labs and Google DeepMind have jointly created an AI-powered marketing tool called Pomelli to help small and medium-sized businesses generate effective social media campaigns. It’s launching today as a public beta experiment for those in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and it currently only supports English. This is Google’s latest initiative […]
Microsoft 365 Copilot Gets the Power to Build Apps and Automate Workflows
Microsoft is adding new capabilities to Microsoft 365 Copilot to help employees be more productive. Available today through the Frontier Program are two new agents —App Builder and Workflows—and a lightweight version of the company’s existing Copilot Studio app. The goal of these tools is to empower all workers—not just power users—to use AI more […]
Adobe Unveils Firefly 5 With Photorealistic Images and Layered Prompt-Based Editing
Adobe is introducing a new image model to its Firefly family of image-generation AI models. Firefly 5 is designed to help creators become more effective storytellers. To achieve this, it now natively supports resolutions up to four megapixels, offers enhanced human rendering, improved lighting, and better editing capabilities. Adobe reiterates that all generations are commercially […]
Adobe Brings Professional Mobile Video Editing to YouTube Shorts Creators
In September, Adobe brought Premiere to the iPhone. Now, it’s proving just how capable that mobile editor can be. This week, the company announced a new partnership with YouTube to help creators produce more polished Shorts. Through the Premiere mobile app, users can access exclusive effects, transitions, templates, and presets, and publish directly to YouTube […]
Adobe Firefly Adds AI-Powered Soundtrack and Speech Generation
First, there was image generation in Adobe Firefly. Then came video, sound effects, and audio translation. Now, Adobe is adding two new capabilities to its generative AI platform: soundtrack and speech creation. “The introduction of the Generate Soundtrack application and model from Adobe…is the first model that allows you to generate instrumental soundtrack that you […]
SAP Challenges Value of ‘Best-of-Breed’ Apps in Enterprise AI
When executive Muhammad Alam stepped onto the Fountainbleau theatre stage in Las Vegas earlier this month to give his opening keynote talk at SAP Connect, I half-expected to witness a spectacle. After all, I’m at a tech conference where AI dominates the agenda, so why wouldn’t there be a flashy performance, brimming with pagentry, to […]