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Orkes, founded by the creators of Netflix’s open source Conductor workflow orchestration tool, comes out of stealth with $9.3M

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million in funding to fuel the mission, as well as to support the continued growth of the open-source Conductor community. In 2021, the three reunited and were joined by Lukose (an alum of Microsoft Azure, where he’d worked with George), to start Orkes.

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5 ways to deploy your own large language model

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Generative AI is transforming the world, changing the way we create images and videos, audio, text, and code. Second, the company funnels its engineers to a version of ChatGPT running on a private Azure cloud. The company primarily uses ChromaDB, an open-source vector store, whose primary use is for LLMs. It’s blocked.”

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Microsoft Ignite 2023: 11 takeaways for CIOs

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It will provide access to Azure features, including speech recognition and sentiment analysis, and the ability to add more sophisticated features through Power Platform connectors and Power Automate workflows, all with governance features so that IT is still in control.

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Key considerations to cancer institute’s gen AI deployment

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Instead, GPT4DFCI, based on OpenAI’s GPT-4 Turbo and hosted within the institute’s private cloud on Azure so no data is leaked back to OpenAI, is more of an improved search engine to help people better understand something. “But we’re not sanctioning it or encouraging it yet across the board as a way to code faster.

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Should you build or buy generative AI?

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Whether it’s text, images, video or, more likely, a combination of multiple models and services, taking advantage of generative AI is a ‘when, not if’ question for organizations. Fine-tuning applies to both hosted cloud LLMs and open source LLM models you run yourself, so this level of ‘shaping’ doesn’t commit you to one approach.

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Replicate wants to take the pain out of running and hosting ML models

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The company was co-founded by Ben Firshman, who led open source product efforts at Docker, and Andreas Jansson, previously a machine learning engineer at Spotify. Enter Replicate, which offers a library of open source models that software developers can run with a few lines of code. So what sets Replicate apart?

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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

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The UK-based accounting and tax consulting firm was one of few accountants in the UK that weathered the 2020 tax season without a hitch, thanks to its early bet on SaaS, Microsoft Azure, and software-defined networking. It worked like magic. We are using both.

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