November 2024 Product Update

As the holiday season kicks off—starting with Thanksgiving 🦃 for our US-based users—the Stack AI team is staying in high gear, rolling out new developments and platform enhancements.

Here’s what’s new.

Tools

Transform your LLMs into proactive agents by equipping them with tools they can trigger when needed.

Here’s the current lineup:

• Gmail: A tool for sending emails via Gmail.
• Yahoo Finance Analytics: tool for get analytics about a ticker from Yahoo Finance.
• Yahoo Finance Ticker: Search ticker information from Yahoo Finance.
• Get Markdown: Retrieves organic search snippets and links from Google News.
• News Search: Fetches search results and links from Google News.
• Job Search: Extracts job titles, company names, and descriptions from Google Jobs.
• Web Search: Provides answer boxes, knowledge graphs, snippets, and webpages from Google Search.
• Regex Extract: Extracts content using regular expressions.
• Wolfram Alpha: Accesses a powerful computational knowledge engine.

Select your LLM and add tools using the bottom section. No other inputs are required from your end. Each tool has a settings tab where you can change some parameters (e.g., search location, etc.).

We're continuously expanding this toolset and phasing out outdated plugins for an even better experience.

Parallel execution

We’ve optimized workflows to support multiple LLMs being executed at the same time. This is impacting mainly projects with multiple branches of data processing.

Tasks now run simultaneously, cutting latency by up to 10x. For example, a logistics customer saw their latency drop from 135 seconds to just 9 seconds for their project.

Revamped form interface

You asked, we delivered! Now you can customize the order of inputs and outputs in the form interface.

Here’s how:

1. Navigate to the Export tab.
2. Go to the Inputs and Outputs nodes.
3. Drag and drop the nodes to arrange them as desired.
4. Click Save Interface to apply your changes.

It’s that simple—enjoy a more tailored workflow

Redesigned sidebar

We’ve listened to your feedback and made functionality blocks more intuitive to navigate in the sidebar:

• Data Loaders: Now organized under:

  • Inputs: Files (previously named Documents), URL
  • Knowledge Bases: Web and Google Search
  • New Databases Section: All SQL integrations are grouped here (MySQL, Azure SQL, etc.)

• Multimodal Models can be now found on:

  • Inputs: for Audio to Text, Image to Text
  • Outputs: for Text to Audio, Text to Image

Improved Knowledge bases

We’ve upgraded how knowledge bases work across the platform:

• Improved File Handling: Seamlessly connect to your knowledge management systems.
• Flexible Creation: Create knowledge bases directly in the workflow builder or from the project dashboard.
• Reusable Across Projects: Share knowledge bases across projects with customizable access rights.
• Deprecation Notice: Previous knowledge base functionality will show a warning as we transition to the new system.

Experience a smarter, more integrated way to manage your knowledge.