Research Tools Radar for June 5th 2024
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Hi there,
Welcome to your weekly dose of research tech updates from Insight Platforms: new companies and tools; product and feature launches; and interesting reads to inspire you.
This week: big funding rounds for research tech are back. AI (un)safety is all around. And the source of Google’s ‘eat rocks’ advice is uncovered.
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Mike
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⚒️ Latest Tools
A selection of the newest tools in the Insight Platforms directory.
Wondering is an AI-powered UX research platform and global participant panel for surveys, interviews, and design tests in 50+ languages.
Dataleap is an AI assistant for market research that combines a chatGPT-style interface with a curated database of internal and market data.
Anecdote is a customer feedback analytics platform that uses AI to tag issues found in reviews, comments, and 65+ other sources.
Crayon is an AI-powered competitor intelligence platform with features for analysis, tracking, and performance measurement.
Amplyfi is an AI-powered B2B market intelligence platform that analyses millions of articles and tracks nearly 10m companies worldwide.
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🎉 Product Updates
A roundup of new features and major upgrades from research tools.
Qualitative research and insight community platform incling adds more AI features for data analysis, transcription, and translation.
Consumer intelligence platform quantilope opens its Academy to the broader insights community, offering a suite of courses in both foundational and advanced market research techniques.
InnovateMR announces enhancements to their Text Analyzer™ product designed to analyse open-ended text responses.
Kantar teams up with QuestionPro for its Voice of Customer CX programmes.
Whoa. Who said mega funding rounds had dried up in #restech? Consumer research tech company GetWhy has secured $34.5 million in Series A funding.
BI and DataViz platform Qlik adds new features including a GenAI assistant.
Romanian martech Flaminjoy partners with Ipsos to create Trend Scout, a tool to collect deep trend insights from influencers and their communities.
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📖 Interesting Reads
Relevant technology, marketing and data articles from around the globe.
Research using synthetic participants underpins this new ad campaign from US Bank.
Doom looms as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his team have no idea how their GPT models make decisions.
On the other hand, Anthropic maps the mind of its Claude LLM.
And, while we’re at it, Google CEO Eric Schmidt weighs in on where AI is headed and when to pull the plug.
Are the AI companies cowering potential whistleblowers into silence?
Google shows us why you should always know what’s in your dataset … and why it’s a bad idea to rush out new products trying to keep up with a competitor.
Zoom founder Eric Yuan wants your AI-powered ‘digital twins’ to attend meetings for you.
The Forrester Wave for Text Mining And Analytics Platforms is here – featuring an oddly select group of vendors.
Reuters and Oxford University ran a survey on the public’s use of generative AI and up to 3 in 10 haven’t heard of GenAI tools.