LLMs

Principles for growable tools

There are three critical pieces to building a tool that can grow around its users over time.

1. Design around play . Sometimes I call this design around experimentation . Using the tool for day-to-day work should involve playing and experimenting with what’s possible with the tool. Whether that’s writing small programs to

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Overview

MaxText is a high performance , highly scalable , open-source LLM written in pure Python/Jax and targeting Google Cloud TPUs and GPUs for training and inference . MaxText achieves high MFUs and scales from single host to very large clusters while staying simple and "optimization-free" thanks to the power of Jax and the XLA compiler.

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Disruptive innovation comes in two flavors: (1) New-market disruption, where the company creates and claims a new segment in an existing market by catering to an underserved customer base, or (2) Low-end disruption, in which a company uses a low-cost business model to enter at the bottom of an existing market and claim a segment.

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Overview

Loki is our open-source solution designed to automate the process of verifying factuality. It provides a comprehensive pipeline for dissecting long texts into individual claims, assessing their worthiness for verification, generating queries for evidence search, crawling for evidence, and ultimately verifying the claims. This tool is... 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

Easily chunk complex documents the same way a human would.

Chunking documents is a challenging task that underpins any RAG system. High quality results are critical to a sucessful AI application, yet most open-source libraries are limited in their ability to handle complex documents.

Open Parse is designed to fill this gap by providing a flexible,... See more

Pipeline RobustQA Avg. score Avg. response time (secs) Azure Cognitive Search Retriever + GPT4 + Ada 72.36 >1.0s Canopy (Pinecone) 59.61 >1.0s Langchain + Pinecone + OpenAI 61.42 <0.8s Langchain + Pinecone + Cohere 69.02 <0.6s LlamaIndex + Weaviate Vector Store - Hybrid Search 75.89 <1.0s RAG Google Cloud VertexAI-Search + Bison... See more

I’ve been giving talks and speaking with engineers and non-technical audiences about interpretability since 2022, and I still struggle to explain exactly what a “feature” is. I often use words like “concept” or “style”, or establish metaphors to debugging programs or making fMRI scans of brains. Both metaphors help people outside of the subfield... See more