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Sana raises $34M for its AI-based knowledge management and learning platform for workplaces

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Today, a startup building out a business based on one particular application of that — how to apply AI to knowledge management in the workplace — is announcing some funding as it finds some decent traction for its approach. “We’ve been using their models from day one continuously, since before launch,” he said.

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Shelf.io closes huge $52.5M Series B after posting 4x ARR growth in the last year

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According to Shelf CEO Sedarius Perrotta , Shelf can absorb information from, say, Salesforce, SharePoint, legacy knowledge management platforms, and Zendesk. The company is starting with customer service as its target vertical.

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Building a Tech-Driven Legal Aid Network for the 21st Century

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In 2013, CARPLS moved its case- and knowledge-management system to a customized version on Salesforce. Based on the success of this model and with the impetus of the COVID-19 crisis, CARPLS created and partnered with New Leaf Illinois , a statewide cannabis record expungement portal.

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OpenAI leads $23.5M round in Mem, an AI-powered note-taking app

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. “The number one thing we hear from the organizations we talk to is the desire to be able to marry their vast troves of proprietary knowledge with … generative AI models — to support use cases that range from conducting research to writing to selling and beyond,” Moody and Xu told TechCrunch in an email interview.

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Heyday lands $6M to build a knowledge base from the services you already use

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Sam and I had recently shut down a product in the knowledge management space that failed to get traction,” Rahman told TechCrunch via email. “In the process of building the product, we met a group of early adopters who felt underserved by popular knowledge management tools that require constant manual input.

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Learning is the Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you are not already familiar with their work, you will learn a lot about online collaboration, knowledge management, informal learning, and networks by following them. What was most exciting for me was to finally meet three people in person after following their writing, blogs, and books for almost a decade.

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Pinecone drops $100M investment on $750M valuation, as vector database demand grows

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While both take large amounts of data and let you search on them, with an LLM the data is baked into the model, and therefore less flexible, while the vector database is built for semantic search, but has the flexibility of a database. He points to GDPR compliance as an example.

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