This release sees improvements in many aspects across Affino that will benefit everyone, enhancing the speed and usability across many Affino services. 

Affino’s AI services are now significantly faster, better and nicer looking, and for the first time Affino’s Expert AI Service is aware of the full conversation you are having.

We have made some important updates to the message click stats, mailing list subscriber import, and subscriptions, amongst others. In general working with ...

This update sees the introduction of Affino’s AI Services, the core of which is the ability to turn your content into interactive chat AI’s. It is possible to set up AI prototypes within minutes and then train up and deploy full scale expert, support or indeed entertainment AI’s in short order trained from your articles and forum threads. Simply set up each AI using the AI Profiles and make each one live on their own dedicated AI Channel. You can then launch a whole suite of AI’s which can work...

Affino 9 introduces the next generation of the Affino SaaS Service. This year has seen the biggest technical shift in Affino for over a decade, and after thirty five updates to Affino 8 we are introducing the first version of Affino 9. It is a radical shift to a new generation of open source technologies with a firm AI and Open Source foundation.

2023 has been an exciting year and feels like the coming of age for AI as a Service (AaaS) and together with the rapid maturity of AI foundational...

This year has seen the biggest technical shift in Affino for over a decade, and after thirty five updates to Affino 8 we will be launching Affino 9 this autumn / fall.

Affino 9 might look the same but it will be running on a transformed infrastructure which will significantly accelerate future evolution.

We have seen four major tech paradigm shifts over the course of Affino’s evolution:

1. Cloud Computing and SaaS
2. The Open Source Age
3. The Mobile Revolution
4. AI and Layers

It is ...

Affino has a long history of bringing new life and value to content produced by media groups, whether it be The Stage’s outstanding theatre reviews, the decades of breaking travel news from TTG Media, or the deep insight provided by Drewry to the word’s leading shippers. 

Affino’s publishing and media business SaaS platform provides a unified means for media companies to publish, store, distribute - via web, print, messaging, apps, feeds and APIs, and now via custom AI user interfaces.

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The first step of the audience engagement funnel is often the most important one. When it comes to websites that often comes down to SEO, and how well your site works with the marketing and bot ecosystem, and increasingly how it works with AI’s.

This update focuses a great deal on improving how Affino and your digital presence works with the global bot ecosystem. Affino pages are now served more intelligently to bots, with improved meta data and sitemaps, and they can inform bots which ...

We have been tracking the evolution of AI platforms and services for some time to identify when would be the best point to roll them out to the Affino community.

Professional Grade AI Services have Arrived

The introduction of OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3, the rapid improvements of Midjourney and many other AI tech providers, along with the accelerating evolution of large language models, vector storage, and AI toolkits such as Langchain, made it clear that AI services have now reached a level ...

This release sees a number of quality of life improvements in Affino, along with a large number of behind the scenes updates which are in preparation for some significant enhancements coming in the next release. 

The quality of life improvements range from things as simple as updated help text prompts that provide more clarity and more flexibility on mailing list signups, through to a number of fixes across the board in Affino. The display side has nice updates for displaying Article Icons ...

Affino’s Marketing Services Automation Update is a breakthrough in a host of areas, primarily around marketing services but also in dozens of other ways ranging from performance and security through to one to one instant chat.

Below are some of the key highlight screenshots.