Changelog

November 2023

• New features:

  • Visual Explore:
    • Expanded NTL-based explore functionality with drag-and-drop simplicity for building Explore routines.
    • Added the ability to create and save templates within the UI.
    • Introduced variables for easy API calling by passing template name and variable values.

• Updates:

  • Enhanced context keeping and semantic score for improved abilities in Spanish.
  • Rolled out a new Spanish micro-model to assist with Spanish NLP.
  • Updated base weights and prompting to counter GPT’s recent drifting.
  • Semantic Scoring now has the ability to consider document title and URL, capturing unique words that may be missing in the document itself.
  • Added the ability to pass a filter column for regression testing.

October 2023

• New features:

  • “Generate Data” options in Explore tab – Send to LLM, Table Understanding
  • “Logs” tab - See history of questions/answers given
  • Hyper-personalization (Corporate document filtering)
  • Corporate Logging - Connect NeuralSeek to an ElasticSearch instance to log everything around Seek, updates, edits, changes
  • Configuration Logs - History of changed settings
  • Enhancements to Explore:
    • “Seek” data
    • PII removal
    • Table Understanding

• New integrations:

  • Elastic Search integration
  • Multi-Turn Conversation Generation for Cognigy
  • Mistral 7B Model support

• Updates:

  • Released On-Prem “Flex” plan
  • Added version numbering to “Integrate” tab sidebar
  • Seek tab - “Show generated” option when the minimum confidence is not met

September 2023

• New features:

  • Explore: An Open-Ended Retrieval Augmented Generation Playground
  • Vector Similarity for Intent Matching

• New integrations:

  • Kore.ai Round Trip Monitoring
  • IBM watsonx Granite Models Supported
  • AWS Bedrock Integration / Models Supported
  • Llama 2 Chat Model Support
  • OpenSearch Integration
  • HuggingFace Integration for Supported Models

• Updates:

  • Refinements to Vector Similarity Matching

August 2023

• New features:

  • BYO-LLM plans – IBM watsonx language translation
  • Option for summarization of document passage results from KB
  • Option for Link Summarization of NeuralSeek Results, 1-5 Result Links
  • ‘Bring Your Own’ Large Language Model (BYO-LLM) cards – ability to use multiple LLMs for a specific task

• New integrations:

  • IBM Watson Assistant Dialog Multi-Turn Conversation Templates
  • AWS Kendra Integration
  • AWS Lex Multi-Turn Conversation Generation Templates

• Updates:

  • New ‘Seek’ Parameter Call to Indicate LLM Preference
  • Ability to set specific language on each LLM – e.g., “use THIS model for Spanish Seek / Translation”

July 2023

• New features:

  • Slot Filler - Ability to auto-fill slots when gathering information
  • Offline spreadsheet editing with upload to Curate tab
  • ConsoleAPI under Integrate tab
  • Answer Streaming – users can now enable streaming responses from NeuralSeek with supported LLMs
  • Translate Endpoint
  • Curate to CSV / Upload Curated QA from CSV
  • On-Prem deployment support
  • New ‘Identify Language’ Endpoint
  • Entity Extraction feature - Custom Entity Creation

• New integrations:

  • IBM watsonx Model Compatibility
  • AWS Lex Round-Trip Monitoring

• Updates:

  • KnowledgeBase translation updated – questions now get translated to KnowledgeBase source language for summarization
  • Cross-lingual support when using language code “xx” (Match Input) enhanced
  • Semantic Match Analysis to describe the logic for the Semantic Score enhanced

June 2023

• New integrations:

  • IBM watsonx (LLM) connector

• Updates:

  • AWS Partnership Announcement
  • Improvements to Caching
  • Confidence and Coverage Score Graphs added to Curate tab

May 2023

• New features:

  • Analytics API endpoint
  • Table Extraction model to enable answers from tabular data

• Updates:

  • Data Cleanser for non-HTML enabled

April 2023

• New features:

  • New plan - ‘Bring Your Own’ Large Language Model (BYO-LLM)
  • Semantic Score Model, Improved Provenance and Semantic Source Re-Rank

• New integrations:

  • Curate answers to Kore.ai, Cognigy, AWS Lex

• Updates:

  • IBM Frankfurt (FRA) data center availability
  • IBM Sydney (SYD) data center availability

March 2023

• New features:

  • Personal Identifiable Information (PII) Detection
  • Sentiment Analysis
  • Source Document Monitoring and Answer Regeneration

• New integrations:

  • Watson Assistant Round-Trip Logging

• Updates:

  • User-specified input length enabled

February 2023

• New features:

  • Personalization of generated answers

• New integrations:

  • Auto-Build Watson Assistant Multi-Step Action

• Updates:

  • Additional languages enabled (Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Indonesian, Japanese)
  • Enhanced API to allow run-time modification of all parameters
  • KB tuning parameters enabled
  • Large Language Model (LLM) tuning