Box, an enterprise software company, is partnering with OpenAI to introduce a new AI-based tools to their platform. This new technology, called Box AI, provides the capability to automatically generate content like summaries and blog posts, as well as to ask questions related to the content of a document in order to better understand it.
For example, users will be able to click on the Box AI button and ask questions such as “Summarize this document for me” or “What are five key points about this document?” and Box’s AI will provide relevant answers. Such a feature can be beneficial when dealing with complex documents such as contracts. Additionally, users will also be able to create new content in Box Notes and ask Box AI to easily turn those points into blog posts.
Box CEO and co-founder Aaron Levie stated that the AI tools will not only help generate content, but will also be able to analyze it. Ultimately, he is confident that the tech can effectively reason through data.
Although the tools have not been released yet, the company is working with early customers to refine its functionality. Box is taking advantage of OpenAI’s API however, the idea is that they may be flexible enough to use any large language model or even alternative model types in the future.
Aaron Levie is the CEO and co-founder of Box, an enterprise software company. He is also a board member at numerous other technology companies as well as a respected speaker at many industry conferences. In 2006, after graduating from the University of Southern California and working at several startups, Aaron co-founded Box with his friends Dylan Smith and Jeff Queisser, and since then the company has raised over $3 billion and become one of the leading cloud storage providers on the market. Aaron has received many accolades, from he 2015 Forbes Midas List to being honored as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Business People of 2015.
