Attention Maple enthusiasts! It gives me great pleasure to announce Maple 2024! Maple 2024 brings together a collection of new features and enhancements carefully designed to enrich your mathematical explorations. Maple 2024 is the result of a lot of hard work by a lot of people, and there is far more in it than I can cover here. But I’d like to share with you some of my favorite features in this release.

AI Formula Assistant

The AI Formula Assistant in Maple 2024 is undoubtedly the feature that excites me the most, especially considering how often I’m asked the question: 'When will Maple include AI features?' This assistant serves as your new mathematical companion and will change the way you look up and enter formulas and equations. Driven by advanced AI technology, it presents a range of relevant options based on your search query. Alongside suggestions, you'll also receive detailed explanations for each formula and its parameters so you can select the one you need, and then you can insert the formula into your document at a click of a button, as a proper Maple expression.

NaturalLanguage Package

The Formula Assistant is built on top of the new NaturalLanguage package, which integrates powerful language models like GPT-4 and ChatGPT from OpenAI into Maple. With this feature, you can leverage large language models to process natural language within Maple. Ask the AI to explain concepts, provide additional details, find specific Maple commands, and more. Of course, since this is a Maple package, you can also use it as a basis to build your own AI-powered applications inside Maple. We’re really looking forward to seeing what you will do with it!

Argument Completion
We’ve had a lot of requests from people who wanted Maple’s command completion features to do even more, and I’m happy to say that Maple 2024 delivers. The new argument completion feature in Maple 2024 is poised to significantly enhance your experience with commands. For many users, including myself, not being aware of all the options a command takes is a challenge, often leading me to refer to help pages for clarification. With argument completion, that's no longer a concern. Just enter the command with the help of the existing command completion feature, then automatic argument completion takes over to guide you through the rest. Give it a try with the 'plot' command!

Check My Work

A personal favorite feature that's gotten even better in Maple 2024 is Check My Work. As someone who has tutored students, I vividly recall their stress before exams, often receiving emails and text messages from them seeking last-minute help. At the time, I found myself wishing the students had a way to check their work themselves, so we would all be less stressed! So I was super excited when we added the first Check My Work feature a couple of years ago, and am very happy that it gets better ever year. In Maple 2024, we’ve expanded its capabilities to support problems involving factoring, simplification, and limits.

Scrollable Matrices:
This feature will definitely resonate with many of the engineers in the Maple Primes community. If you're someone who works with worksheets containing large matrices, you've likely wished that you could scroll the matrices inside your document instead of having to launch a separate matrix browser. With Maple 2024, your wish has come true.

Color Bars

And finally, for those of you who appreciated the addition of color bars in Maple 2023 but wanted to see them extended to more 2D and 3D plots, you'll be delighted to know that this is exactly what we’ve done. We’ve also added new customization options, providing you with greater control over appearance.

This is just a partial glimpse of what's new in Maple 2024. For a comprehensive overview, visit What’s New in Maple 2024.