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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Vercel Deepens Its AI Push With New Tools That Build Reliability and Intelligence Into Software
Vercel, the cloud platform for front-end developers, is expanding deeper into AI. The company has rolled out a series of tools designed to help developers build faster, more reliable, and more secure AI applications. Among them: enhancements to the company’s agent that now empower it to investigate anomaly alerts, a new open-source kit that bakes […]
Lattice Transforms the Workplace with Habit-Focused AI Agents
Weeks ago, when Sarah Franklin proclaimed that Lattice was in its “refounding” moment, it wasn’t just a catchy phrase—she had her eyes set on reimagining what the people management platform could become in the AI era. While she was initially reserved about what she could disclose, Franklin is opening up and sharing what Lattice is […]
Adobe AI Foundry Builds Custom Generative Models for Brands
Adobe is launching a new service called the Adobe AI Foundry, designed to help businesses build their own custom generative AI models. Much like Intel’s chip foundry, Adobe’s version aims to do the same for AI, offering companies a framework to design and train models on their own data. These LLMs will be built on […]
Adobe LLM Optimizer Targets Generative AI Content Discovery
Adobe has launched its LLM Optimizer, an application that brands can use for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). Initially unveiled in June, this now generally available tool can monitor AI-driven traffic and improve discoverability on AI-powered chat platforms and browsers like Google’s AI Overview and Perplexity. The LLM Optimizer is available either as a standalone application […]
Most Companies Still Aren’t Ready for AI, But Leaders Are Starting to Capture Value
The number of companies truly ready for AI may have plateaued, with just 13 percent saying they’re prepared to operationalize the technology. That’s according to Cisco’s third annual AI Readiness Index, released earlier this month. While the topline number hasn’t shifted year over year, the context has. Cisco says the so-called “Pacesetters”—a small but disciplined […]