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How AI orchestration has become more important than the models themselves

CIO

As many companies that have already adopted off-the-shelf GenAI models have found, getting these generic LLMs to work for highly specialized workflows requires a great deal of customization and integration of company-specific data. Large language models (LLMs) just keep getting better. From Llama3.1 to Gemini to Claude3.5

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5 Things To Look For When Evaluating AI Startups

Crunchbase News

LLM customization Is the startup using a mostly off-the-shelf LLM — e.g., OpenAI ’s ChatGPT — or a meaningfully customized LLM? Different ways to customize an LLM include fine-tuning an off-the-shelf model or building a custom one using an open-source LLM like Meta ’s Llama. trillion to $4.4 trillion annually.

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AI as a service to solve your business problems? Guess again

TechCrunch

Industries of all types are embracing off-the-shelf AI solutions. That’s a far cry from what most online off-the-shelf AI services offer today. Ralf Haller is the executive vice president of sales and marketing at NNAISENSE. It sounds like a great idea, but there is a caveat — “one-size-fits-all” syndrome.

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‘Just-in-time’ AI: Has its moment arrived?

CIO

They just need their software development team to incorporate that [gen AI] component into an application, so talent is no longer a limiting factor,” the analyst claims. The timeliness is critical. You don’t want to do the work too much in advance because you want that real-time context. Google has come up with a RAG service.

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Taktile makes it easier to leverage machine learning in the financial industry

TechCrunch

They could use that data to train new models and roll out machine learning applications. The product works with both off-the-shelf models and customer-built models. It can run in a customer’s cloud environment or as a SaaS application. But what about legacy players in the financial industry? It has raised a $4.7

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Bank of America’s big bet on AI started small

CIO

The bank is already capitalizing on generative AI applications and pilots that are now beyond the proof-of-concept phase, Gopalkrishnan says. Hari Gopalkrishnan, head of consumer, business, and wealth management technology at BofA, says the key to Ericas success and longevity has been its small size. We are not writing essays with Erica.

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Off the Shelf vs Custom Software: Making the Right Choice for Your Business

Trigent

Here’s all that you need to make an informed choice on off the shelf vs custom software. While doing so, they have two choices – to buy a ready-made off-the-shelf solution created for the mass market or get a custom software designed and developed to serve their specific needs and requirements.