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