KNIME, the open supply information analytics and AI firm, introduced the launch of its AI companion – Ok-AI – to all customers. With Ok-AI, customers can co-create highly effective information workflows with AI. Ok-AI will reply questions, make suggestions, and prolong or construct entire information workflows primarily based on person prompts. The AI companion accelerates the time to perception, whereas giving customers full transparency into and management over what AI is doing.
It is a main step ahead within the automation of knowledge work that helps customers of any ability degree derive higher insights from their information, sooner.
Not like AI instruments that generate scripts, KNIME’s intuitive visible workflows assist information employees instantly perceive how AI contributed to their work. Not solely does the visible workflow act as documentation of each step in a knowledge manipulation or information evaluation course of, however Ok-AI additionally provides its personal narrative textual content to doc its work, so you’ll be able to simply assessment it. The workflow itself represents a paradigm shift for information employees utilizing AI, from opaque code-heavy environments, to clear documented workflows anybody can perceive.
This makes Ok-AI a companion you’ll be able to belief together with your information work.
Changing into “data-driven” is a fascinating objective for a lot of corporations, however one they usually face challenges with – whether or not it’s challenges in working effectively with information, bottlenecks on account of restricted entry to information scientists, or lack of well timed insights on account of prolonged information prep processes.
Ok-AI helps anybody within the group upskill sooner to do information work, taking the burden off inner specialists. It additionally considerably will increase the pace at which information may be ready and cleaned for evaluation – a course of that’s routine and sometimes time-consuming for people.
Ok-AI gives two modes:
- Q&A Mode: Customers can ask KNIME-related technical or theoretical questions, and Ok-AI supplies solutions, serving to customers higher perceive how particular nodes work or find out how to additional enhance their workflows.
- Construct Mode: Ok-AI collaborates with customers within the canvas by including, connecting, and configuring nodes primarily based on person interactions. Customers can construct a easy workflow with a single immediate, or get Ok-AI’s assist to advise on the following node throughout workflow creation. Ok-AI can even assist in styling visualizations, producing embedded Python or R scripts, and extra. Ok-AI at all times explains its work so people can see what has been added to their workflows and why.
KNIME’s Ok-AI companion doesn’t simply assist with constructing workflows from scratch. In construct mode, it could possibly prolong current workflows and in Q&A mode it could possibly suggest extensions, workflows, and nodes from KNIME Neighborhood Hub. This makes it simpler than ever for customers to find current options and construct on group contributions with out ranging from scratch.
“KNIME’s mission has at all times been to allow anybody to have the ability to make sense of their information, no matter their technical background,” mentioned Michael Berthold, CEO of KNIME. “With Ok-AI, we’re taking a major step ahead in serving to people construct workflows sooner and study extra within the course of. By combining AI help with KNIME’s open-source platform, we’re not solely accelerating how customers work with information but additionally empowering them to study and develop as they go. We’re excited to see how Ok-AI will assist customers unlock new alternatives with their information.”
Ok-AI was first launched as an experimental extension in early 2024. Through the experimental part, each the Ok-AI Q&A mode and the Construct mode have been examined and refined. Now Ok-AI is for the primary time launched into KNIME for all customers as a part of the broader KNIME Analytics Platform 5.4 launch, which incorporates quite a few enhancements to LLM connectivity, LLM analysis capabilities, and the general person expertise:
- Improved AI extension with assist for Databricks LLMs and GPT4All fashions on IBM Granite and Microsoft Phi 3.5 on prime of current assist for OpenAI, Azure, Hugging Face, and Ollama fashions.
- The power to detect vulnerabilities comparable to bias, hallucination, information leakage and extra in AI-augmented workflows with Giskard LLM and Giskard RAG nodes.
- A number of connectivity enhancements to Tableau, Field, and Databricks on prime of KNIME’s 300+ current information supply integrations.
Beginning with KNIME Analytics Platform 5.4, Ok-AI is included for all customers. Customers can even attempt constructing with Ok-AI immediately within the browser through KNIME’s new playground environment. Learn extra concerning the full set of options introduced in KNIME Analytics Platform 5.4 HERE.
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