KNIMEthe open source data analytics and AI company, announced the launch of its AI companion – K-AI – for all users. With K-AI, users can co-create powerful data feeds with AI. K-AI will answer questions, make recommendations, and expand or create comprehensive data feeds based on user prompts. The AI Companion speeds up the time to insights, while giving users complete transparency and control over what the AI is doing.
This is a major advancement in automating data work that helps users, regardless of their skill level, derive better insights from their data faster.
Unlike AI tools that generate scripts, KNIME’s intuitive visual workflows help data users immediately understand how AI contributed to their work. Not only does the visual workflow serve as documentation of each step of a data manipulation or analysis process, but K-AI also adds its own narrative text to document its work, so you can easily reference it. The workflow itself represents a paradigm shift for data workers using AI, moving from opaque, code-rich environments to transparent, documented workflows that anyone can understand.
This makes K-AI a trusted partner for your data work.
Becoming “data-driven” is a desirable goal for many businesses, but they often face challenges: from difficulties working effectively with data to bottlenecks due to limited access to data scientists or lack of timely information due to lengthy data preparation. process.
K-AI helps everyone in the organization improve their skills to perform data work more quickly, thereby easing the burden on internal experts. It also significantly increases the speed at which data can be prepared and cleaned for analysis – a routine and often time-consuming process for humans.
K-AI offers two modes:
- Question and answer mode: Users can ask technical or theoretical questions related to KNIME, and K-AI provides answers, helping users better understand how specific nodes work or how to further improve their workflows.
- Build mode: K-AI collaborates with users in the canvas by adding, connecting and configuring nodes based on user interactions. Users can create a simple workflow with a single prompt or get help from K-AI to advise them on the next node when creating the workflow. K-AI can also help style visualizations, generate built-in Python or R scripts, and much more. K-AI always explains its work so humans can see what has been added to their workflows and why.
KNIME’s K-AI Companion doesn’t just help create workflows from scratch. In build mode it can extend existing workflows and in Q&A mode it can recommend extensions, workflows and nodes from the KNIME Community Hub. This makes it easier than ever for users to discover existing solutions and build on community contributions without starting from scratch.
“KNIME’s mission has always been to empower everyone to make sense of their data, regardless of their technical background,” said Michael Berthold, CEO of KNIME. “With K-AI, we are taking a significant step forward in helping people build workflows faster and learn more in the process. By combining AI assistance with KNIME’s open source platform, we not only accelerate the way users work with data, but also empower them to learn and grow as they go. We are excited to see how K-AI will help users unlock new opportunities with their data.
K-AI was first released as an experimental expansion in early 2024. During the experimental phase, K-AI’s Q&A mode and Build mode were tested and refined. Now K-AI is for the first time published in KNIME for all users as part of a broader program. KNIME 5.4 analysis platform release, which includes numerous improvements to LLM connectivity, LLM assessment capabilities, and overall user experience:
- Enhanced AI extension with support for Databricks LLM and GPT4All models on IBM Granite and Microsoft Phi 3.5 in addition to existing support for OpenAI, Azure, Hugging Face and Ollama models.
- The ability to detect vulnerabilities like bias, hallucinations, data leaks and more in AI-augmented workflows with Giskard LLM and Giskard RAG nodes.
- Multiple connectivity improvements to Tableau, Box and Databricks in addition to KNIME’s 300+ existing data source integrations.
Starting with KNIME Analytics Platform 5.4, K-AI is included for all users. Users can also try building with K-AI directly in the browser via the new playground environment. Learn more about the feature set announced in KNIME Analytics Platform 5.4 HERE.
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