Five Minute Briefing - Information Management
February 7, 2023
Five Minute Briefing - Information Management: February 7, 2023. A concise weekly report with key product news, market research and insight for data management professionals and IT executives.
News Flashes
Google is launching an experimental conversational AI service, powered by LaMDA, called Bard. The company is opening Bard up to trusted testers ahead of making it more widely available to the public in the coming weeks. Bard seeks to combine the breadth of the world's knowledge with the power, intelligence and creativity of our large language models. It draws on information from the web to provide fresh, high-quality responses, according to the company.
Progress, a provider of application development and infrastructure software, announced it has completed the acquisition of MarkLogic, a leader in complex data and semantic metadata management and a Vector Capital portfolio company. MarkLogic extends Progress' capabilities beyond structured data with a powerful NoSQL database, informed search, and semantic AI.