Gilbane Advisor: knowledge graph?, AI agents & the web, document AI
This week we feature articles from Kurt Cagle, and Dharmesh Shah.
Additional reading comes from Sarah Gilbert, John Timmer, Mrinank Sharma, et al, and Ben Hylak, Shawn Wang, & Alessio Fanelli.
News comes from Databricks, Docugami, Adobe, and Brightcove.
Next issue arrives February 19.
All previous issues are available at https://gilbane.com/gilbane-advisor-index
Opinion / Analysis…
When do you need a knowledge graph?
“Building a knowledge graph can be a significant undertaking, and consequently, it is worth taking the time to figure out if you need to make that effort in establishing one. There are a few questions you can ask when assessing this effort.” Kurt Cagle’s post will help decision-making teams get started. (5 min)
https://ontologist.substack.com/p/when-do-you-need-a-knowledge-graph
What OpenAI Operator means for AI Agents
Dharmesh Shah, who hosts a “marketplace and professional network for AI agents” (currently 784), is unsurprisingly excited about the recent announcements of OpenAI’s Operator, and Perplexity’s Assistant. He explains what “these new AI agents can (and can’t) do, why this matters, and what developers need to know about our new AI-first internet”. (5 min)
https://simple.ai/p/what-openai-operator-means-for-ai-agents
More Reading
- It’s remarkably easy to inject new medical misinformation into LLMs via Ars Technica
- Three reasons Meta will struggle with community fact-checking via MIT Technology Review
- Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against universal jailbreaks. Break it for reward! via Anthropic
- o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point) via Latent Space
Content technology news…
Databricks acquires BladeBridge
BladeBridge to help enterprises migrate to Databricks’ lakehouse, assess scope of conversion, configurable code transpiling, and LLM-conversion.
https://www.databricks.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/databricks-acquires-bladebridge-technology-and-talent
Docugami launches Canadian subsidiary
Docugami Canada will accelerate collaboration to advance the science of document Artificial Intelligence and expand customer engagement in Canada.
https://www.docugami.com
Adobe Acrobat AI Assistant adds GenAI features focused on contracts
The new features help customers grasp complex terms and spot differences between multiple agreements to understand and verify documents more easily.
https://news.adobe.com/news/2025/02/acrobat-ai-assistant-contracts
Brightcove launches AI Content Suite
The Brightcove AI Content Suite includes three AI-powered capabilities: content creation, metadata optimization, and language translation.
https://www.brightcove.com/company/press/brightcove-launches-ai-content-suite-ga/
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Originally published at https://gilbane.com on February 12, 2025.
