​AI Tech Circle​

Hey Reader!

This week was so busy attending Oracle’s CloudWorld tour Dubai on 23rd Jan at DWTC, Dubai, UAE. The event was unique; I met many colleagues, friends, and customers. It has also enabled me to get insight and knowledge.

The most exciting news was that Oracle had released the Generally available Generative AI (Large Language models) as managed services covering two different models.

​Pre-trained foundational models are available with the click of a button:

• Cohere.command & cohere.command-light
• cohere.embed-english-v3.0 & cohere.embed-multilingual-v3.0
• meta.llama-2-70b-chat

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Generative AI is a fully managed service that provides customizable large language models (LLMs) that cover many use cases.

1. Text Generation
2. Summarization
3. Embedding

1 – Text Generation: A few examples

• Develop compelling pitches for new products.
• Craft engaging slogans for marketing initiatives.
• Write persuasive sales emails for clients.
• Generate creative social media content.
• Compose detailed job descriptions.
• Create attention-grabbing article titles.

2 – Summarization

Efficient Summarization Services:

• Create concise executive summaries for lengthy documents.
• Offer summarization for various text formats, including:
  • Documents and contracts
  • Emails
  • News articles
  • Blog entries
  • Product evaluations
  • Social media content
• Categorize text into specific, pre-set groups. For instance:
  • Sort support tickets by assigning them to the appropriate department.
  • Organize companies into their relevant industry sectors based on a list of sectors and company names.

3 – Embedding

Applications for Text Embeddings:

• Semantic Search: Enhance search capabilities across call transcripts and internal knowledge bases.
• Text Classification: Apply text embeddings to categorize customer intentions in chat logs and support tickets.
• Text Clustering: Discover key themes in customer feedback or new datasets.
• Recommendation Systems: Use numerical representations of podcast descriptions to improve the accuracy of recommendation models.

Another exciting announcement is the release of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Generative AI Agents, which blends the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with enterprise data. This allows users to search various enterprise knowledge bases using natural language queries. They can easily access current information and immediately utilize it for their needs.

Weekly News & Updates…

This week’s unveiling of new AI tools and products drives the technology revolution forward.

1. ​OpenAI has released GPT-3.5 Turbo, new ways to manage API keys, and enhancements to API usage.
2. ​Lumiere: A Space-Time Diffusion Model for Video Generation. a text-to-video diffusion model designed for synthesizing videos that portray realistic, diverse, and coherent motion

The Cloud: the backbone of the AI revolution

• ​Oracle Embeds Generative AI Across the Technology Stack to Enable Enterprise AI Adoption at Scale
• ​Quantifying the impact of developer experience
• ​How to build a Gen AI application​
• ​How Amazon and NVIDIA Help Sellers Create Better Product Listings With AI

Favorite Tip Of The Week:

Here’s my favorite resource of the week.

​NVIDIA Generative AI Examples: that are easy to deploy, test, and extend

Potential of AI

• Building a Value-Driving AI Strategy for Your Business 4 critical pillars of AI strategy as per Gartner: Vision, value-realization, risk, and adoption plans

Things to Know

• ​Top Tech 2024: What to watch for in the year ahead

The Opportunity…

Podcast:

• This week’s Open Tech Talks episode 125 is “From Novice to No-Code Ninja: App Development Secrets with Dan Hafner.”

Apple | Spotify | Google Podcast

Courses to attend:

• ​Large Language Model Course, an excellent repository to give you the roadmap to learn LLMs
• ​Making Friends with Machine Learning​

Events:

• ​WebSummit, Qatar, Feb 26-29, 2024
• ​IDC Middle East CIO Summit, UAE, Feb 21 – 22, 2024

Tech and Tools…

• ​Open Interpreter allows LLMs to run code (Python, Javascript, Shell, and more) locally.
• ​Ollama: Get up and running locally with large language models.

Data Sets…

• ​UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository
• ​OpenMLA – worldwide machine learning lab
• ​Academic Torrents – distributed system for sharing enormous datasets
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Other Technology News

Want to stay on the cutting edge?

Here’s what else is happening in Information Technology you should know about:

• ​Google’s Hugging Face deal puts ‘supercomputer’ power behind open-source AI
• ​Microsoft launches Mesh, a virtual meeting platform on Teams

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That’s it!

As always, thanks for reading.

Hit reply and let me know what you found most helpful this week – I’d love to hear from you!

Until next week,

Kashif Manzoor

The opinions expressed here are solely my conjecture based on experience, practice, and observation. They do not represent the thoughts, intentions, plans, or strategies of my current or previous employers or their clients/customers. The objective of this newsletter is to share and learn with the community.