LLMs

OpenAI is treating its new marketplace seriously now: The brand new GPT store will come with REVENUE SHARING.... (missing in the Plugins launch)

and launching a Stateful Assistants API:

- Persistent Threads (/api/openai/threads)

- Built in Retrieval (chunking etc done for you)

- Code Interpreter (RIP Adv Data Analysis?)

- Speech to Text and Text to... See more

Top considerations when choosing foundation models

Accuracy

Cost

Latency

Privacy

Top challenges when deploying production AI

Serving cost

Evaluation

Infra reliability

Model quality

Zerox OCR

A dead simple way of OCR-ing a document for AI ingestion. Documents are meant to be a visual representation after all. With weird layouts, tables, charts, etc. The vision models just make sense!

The general logic:

• Pass in a PDF (URL or file buffer)


• Turn the PDF into a series of images


• Pass each image to GPT and ask nicely for Markdown


• Aggregat

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The AI engineering framework

Marvin is a lightweight AI engineering framework for building natural language interfaces that are reliable, scalable, and easy to trust.

Sometimes the most challenging part of working with generative AI is remembering that it's not magic; it's software. It's new, it's nondeterministic, and it's incredibly powerful - but... See more

Setting up the necessary machine learning infrastructure to run these big models is another challenge. We need a dedicated model server for running model inference (using frameworks like Triton oder vLLM), powerful GPUs to run everything robustly, and configurability in our servers to make sure they're high throughput and low latency. Tuning the... See more

When it comes to identifying where generative AI can make an impact, we dig into challenges that commonly:

• Involve analysis, interpretation, or review of unstructured content (e.g. text) at scale


• Require massive scaling that may be otherwise prohibitive due to limited resources


• Would be challenging for rules-based or traditional ML approaches

You can think your way into solving a deterministic system, but you cannot think your way into solving a probabilistic system.

The first thing that I want to call out is that deterministic software has edge cases, while probabilistic software has long tails.

I find that a lot of junior folks try to really think hard about edge cases around... See more

Systems can be dynamic. Machine learning models are inherently limited because they are trained on static datasets, so their “knowledge” is fixed. Therefore, developers need to combine models with other components, such as search and retrieval, to incorporate timely data. In addition, training lets a model “see” the whole training set, so more

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𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗱𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻-𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗟𝗟𝗠 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀t ↓

- 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘦-𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨: utilize domain-specific data to apply the same pre-training process (next token prediction) on the pre-trained (base) model

- 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦-𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨: the pre-trained (base) model is fine-tuned on a Q&A dataset to learn to answer questions

- 𝘚𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦-𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘬 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦-𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨: the... See more