Evoya AI Update: January 2025

Table of Contents

• New "Library": AI Agents & Knowledge at the Push of a Button
• Partnership with backslash
• Stansstad Adopts the Evoya AI Chat
• Agent Testing Suite
• LLM Update: o1 / -mini, DeepSeek R1 and More
• UI Updates: More Focus, More Efficiency

New "Library": AI Agents & Knowledge at the Push of a Button

With our new library, we're making the use of AI agents even easier. We offer pre-configured agents that are optimized for industry-specific use cases and can be activated with fewer clicks.

In addition to agents, we also provide you with structured knowledge, such as laws like the Swiss Code of Obligations (OR) or Civil Code (ZGB), which can be directly integrated into your AI-powered research. This means you're not dependent on outdated or limited training data from language models, but have direct access to comprehensive and always up-to-date information.

The library is currently in beta phase, and we want to tailor it specifically to your needs. Which AI agents or data sources would make your work easier? Whether industry-specific or general – we look forward to your ideas.

Participation pays off: The most exciting idea wins a free workshop (value: 1,500 CHF)!

Partnership with backslash

Last autumn, we entered into a partnership with the web agency backslash. Backslash specializes in creating web presences for cantons, cities and municipalities and serves over 200 customers throughout Switzerland in this environment.

Backslash now offers their customers our municipal AI chats, packaged with our Evoya AI Workspace for municipal employees. Apparently, the offer is meeting with keen interest. The first municipality with the Evoya AI citizen chat is Stansstad, Küsnacht (ZH) will follow shortly, and many others have expressed interest.

Stansstad Adopts the Evoya AI Chat

Stansstad is the first Swiss municipality to introduce the Evoya AI Chat. This enables citizens to receive answers to questions about politics, administration, leisure and culture, as well as legal regulations such as building or advertising laws, in more than 50 languages within seconds.

The AI chat's knowledge base consists of Stansstad's official website as well as relevant legal articles from the Canton of Nidwalden.

Would you like to see the chat in action? Test it here: www.stansstad.ch.

Agent Testing Suite

We chat with an Evoya AI agent – and often we are (too) quickly satisfied with the answer. But how do we actually know that it couldn't be even better?

To be able to answer these questions systematically, we have created a comprehensive Agent Testing Framework. With this, a set of test questions can be simultaneously fed to multiple agents (with different configurations). The responses from the agents can be compared side by side.

Even better: When a reference answer is provided, AI can even perform an automatic evaluation of the agent responses versus the reference answer!

LLM Update: o1 / -mini, DeepSeek R1 and More

This month too, we've been keeping an eye out for the latest developments and integrated the best new AI models into the Evoya platform.

List of updates:

• DeepSeek R1 added (not just because of the current media buzz around DeepSeek – the reasoning model is really good!)
• OpenAI o1 and o1 mini added (additional reasoning models)
• Google Gemini Pro 1.5 added (= Gemini Advanced in Google services)
• Minimax 01 added (because it sets a new record in terms of context window: 4 million tokens – and without major losses as context size increases)
• Updated various models to the latest version

All information about the available AI models is available as always in the Model Hub directly on the Evoya platform!

UI Updates: More Focus, More Efficiency

Optimized Navigation

We have optimized the side menu and display in the platform so that you can get to the most important functions faster and work more flexibly.

What's new:

• Simplified side menu: The most important pages – Workspace, Agents, Data Sources and now also the Library – are now directly visible. Configurations and settings are kept compact and only accessible after a click.
• New view options: On the agents and data sources pages, you can switch between grid and list view – depending on which display you prefer.
• Configurations: Under Configurations, you'll now find emails, tools, the language model hub and guidelines clearly bundled together.

We have redesigned the subscription page to give you a clear overview of your usage and features.

In the new "Overview" tab, you can see all important details about your subscription at a glance – for example, how many users or agents have already been used. This way you always keep track and know exactly what capacity is still available to you.

For everyone who wants to flexibly adjust their subscription, there is the option in the "Subscription" tab to make upgrades or downgrades directly – provided payment is made by credit card. If more credits are needed, you can easily add them at any time in the "Credit" tab.

With this new structure, you have all important information in one place – transparent, clear and easy to manage.

Curious how this looks in practice? Start a free trial or book a demo – we'd be happy to show you the feature!