Bringing Open Source to AI

Happy Mothers Day! And let’s explore some new happenings at the intersection of open source and AI. SHOW: 820SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Cloudcast #820SHOW VIDEO: https://youtube.com/@TheCloudcastNET CLOUD NEWS OF THE WEEK - http://bit.ly/cloudcast-cnotwCHECK OUT OUR NEW PODCAST - "CLOUDCAST BASICS"SHOW NOTES:InstructLab Project (github homepage)LAB: Large-Scale Alignment for ChatBots (research paper)Granite LLMs (IBM research - Hugging Face)7b-base model7b-lab modelInstructLab: What is contributing to AI LLM models was easy? (Redmonk)HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO ALL THE MOMSCall you mom, be good to your wife, and be a role model for the young girls in your lifeOPEN SOURCE MEETS AIThe 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)FEEDBACK?Email: show at the cloudcast dot netTwitter: @cloudcastpodInstagram: @cloudcastpodTikTok: @cloudcastpod