​AI Tech Circle​

Hey Reader!

Over the last year, I have been working with several colleagues and customers on Generative AI to assist them in how they can get benefits out of it and how it can assist them in solving different business problems. As the field is new for everyone, including myself, I searched a lot over here and there, and the key question came. Whenever any new technology comes into play, how do you benefit from it, or how do you use it in the different businesses across different industries?

Fortunately, we also have these consulting companies: Gartner, IDC, McKinsey, PwC, BCG etc, etc. They put much effort into creating content around these new technologies and then open source companies who help strive for the wider world.

So the key question started coming:

• What do we do with this Generative AI?
• What common use cases can be utilized and adopted in the organization?

This also led me to do some research; for example, my first interaction was to find out the use cases for the retail industry, and that's how I wrote about Gen AI in the Retail Industry in this edition of the newsletter.

Now, after so many months, I have quite good resources on generative AI, so I thought I would put them together, and that is how this guide or ebook was created. Your Guide to Generative AI Use Cases Across Industries is a curated list of many use cases that can assist you in getting the idea and then working further on it to refine and make it useful for your organization.

Get over here and download it.

Weekly News & Updates...

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

1. ​Eagle 7B: Built on the RWKV-v5 architecture - a linear transformer with 10-100x+ lower inference cost
2. ​Code Llama 70B: a new, more performant version of LLM for code generation from Meta
3. ​Nomic Embed - the open long context text embedder
4. ​Bard with Gemini Pro is available now

The Cloud: the backbone of the AI revolution

• ​The Future of Generative AI: What Enterprises Need to Know
• ​Develop and Deploy Machine Learning Models with Eviden’s Comprehensive Approach to MLOps Assessment
• ​Continuous model monitoring in Azure Machine Learning
• ​Automate public website indexing for efficient semantic search with Vertex AI
• ​US National Science Foundation Launches National AI Research Resource Pilot

Favorite Tip Of The Week:

Here's my favorite resource of the week.

• ​Building LLM Platform for Your Organization​

Potential of AI

• ​Linux Foundation's AI & Data has released a survey report on Generative AI.

Kashif Manzoor @kashifmanzoor #GenerativeAI survey findings conducted by LF AI & Data in collaboration with Linux Foundation Research delve into GenAI’s integration into businesses and its openness. - 50% are using it in a production context - 60% of plans to allocate a large percentage of IT budgets to… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1751903432410046870 1:41 PM • Jan 29, 2024 0 Retweets 1 Likes

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Things to Know

• Hugging Face launches an open-source Chat assistant similar to OpenAI's GPTs

Philipp Schmid @_philschmid Introducing Hugging Chat Assistant! 🤵 Build your own personal Assistant in Hugging Face Chat in 2 clicks! Similar to @OpenAI GPTs, you can now create custom versions of @huggingface Chat! 🤯 An Assistant is defined by 🏷️ Name, Avatar, and Description 🧠 Any available open… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1753429249363452274 6:44 PM • Feb 2, 2024 75 Retweets 344 Likes Read 10 replies

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The Opportunity...

Podcast:

• This week's Open Tech Talks episode 116 is "Balancing Work and Study: Tips for the Working Professional Pursuing a Degree with Christie Carmelle Lopez."

Apple | Spotify | Google Podcast

Courses to attend:

• ​Ten new generative AI trainings​
• ​Generative AI for Beginners - A Course​

Events:

• ​GISEC, Global, 23-24 April, Dubai, UAE
• ​WebSummit, Qatar, Feb 26-29, 2024
• ​IDC Middle East CIO Summit, UAE, Feb 21 - 22, 2024
• ​KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe March 19-22 | Paris, France

Tech and Tools...

• ​fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI.
• ​LLaVA: Large Language and Vision Assistant
• ​MLflow: A Machine Learning Lifecycle Platform

Data Sets...

• ​ImageNet dataset contains 14,197,122 annotated images
• ​MNIST database from the Modified National Institute of Standards and Technology database is a large collection of handwritten digits
• ​CIFAR-10 dataset consists of 60000 32x32 color images in 10 classes, with 6000 images per class
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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:

• ​Amazon made an AI bot to talk you through buying more stuff on Amazon
• ​Europe within reach of landmark AI rules after nod from EU countries

Earlier Edition of a newsletter

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.