Bringing Open Source to AI

Happy Mothers Day! And let’s explore some new happenings at the intersection of open source and AI. 

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SHOW NOTES:

• InstructLab Project (github homepage)
• LAB: Large-Scale Alignment for ChatBots (research paper)
• Granite LLMs (IBM research - Hugging Face)
  • 7b-base model
  • 7b-lab model
• InstructLab: What is contributing to AI LLM models was easy? (Redmonk)

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL THE MOMS

• Call you mom, be good to your wife, and be a role model for the young girls in your life

OPEN SOURCE MEETS AI

• The big AI question: 1 model, or many models?
• 2023 was the year of model diversity, and the beginnings of “open” models (Llama 2, Mistral, etc.)
• Can we make it easier to contribute to an open model?
• Can we create communities around models?
• Can we reduce the costs of expensive parts of AI? 
• How can businesses bring their knowledge to a model, without security concerns about their data? (options like RAG (retrieval augmented generation) exist)

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