Google's Enterprise-ready Vertex AI

PLUS: Anthropics Claude 3.5 Sonnet

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Welcome to the first weekly edition of “The AI Catalyst”.

Vertex AI, Google's enterprise AI platform, is being improved by its features such as Gemini 1.5 Flash, Grounding with Google Search, and third-party data integration to enhance the AI platform’s accuracy and capabilities.

At the same time, Amazon Bedrock presents editable tools for AI assistants that can not only analyse multimodal data but also be used in investment research.

Today’s Insights:

  • Enterprise-ready Google’s Vertex AI

  • Build GenAI apps using Amazon Bedrock

  • Generative AI applications with Guardrails

  • Gemma 2 - Google’s new Open AI LLM

  • Multi-agent AI Systems Framework

  • Instruction Pre-Training (InstructPT)

  • California State AI Bill SB 1047

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Enterprise-ready Google’s Vertex AI

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The Synopsis: Vertex AI receives significant upgrades from Google Cloud, including advanced models, cost-competitive configuration, and data security enhancement, which positions it as a leading enterprise AI platform.

The Essentials:

  • The Gemini 1.5 Flash - 1 million tokens context window with low latency by which large datasets can be processed quickly and efficiently.

  • The Gemini 1.5 Pro - 2 million tokens context window enables the processing of even larger data sets for advanced users.

  • Google addresses Data security concerns by offering data residency guarantees in 23 countries worldwide, and companies having data sovereignty options with their data.

  • Vertex AI is extended by Google to the growth of third-party models, like Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

  • Google is pushing towards making Vertex AI a centre that can properly employ AI technologies and still use the data safely.

The Key Takeaway: By embracing the Vertex AI solution, Google Cloud illustrates its strong emphasis on delivering an all-encompassing, streamlined, and safe AI platform that can be utilized by companies.

Build GenAI apps using Amazon Bedrock

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The Synopsis: Amazon Bedrock is an offering that is entirely managed and consists of a diverse line of foundation models from the top AI firms and Amazon.

The Essentials :

  • With Amazon Bedrock customers can use a single API to communicate with AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Stability AI and the models embodied by Amazon.

  • The basic machine learning/models supplier/service provides users with specialized equipment and the creation of templates such as lightweight small models.

  • Through fine-tuning or retrieval augmented generation users can make custom apps in the customization options

  • The components of security are private networking, encryption, and role-based access control.

  • Other than the AWS services which are available from Amazon SageMaker, vector databases as well as access to clients are also provided here

The Key Takeaway: Amazon Bedrock is a tool that allows technology developers to use AI to automatically create new ideas by making sure that the process is secure, regulatory-compliant, and adaptable.

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Generative AI applications with Guardrails

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The Synopsis: Guardrails are examples of ensuring the safety of the Large Language Models (LLMs) functioning in AI applications. It focuses on the importance of safety to prevent harmful, biased, or inappropriate content.

The Essentials :

  • Guardrails are essential for eliminating the risks associated with LLMs, such as false information, manipulation, and the generation of harmful content.

  • GuardRails Implementation Tools include services like Amazon Bedrock, open-source toolkits like NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails and the LLM Guard framework.

  • Both inputs of the user and the LLM responses can be regulated by the guardrails, by using methods like content filters, denied genres, word filters, and sensitive information finding.

The Key Takeaway: Building safe AI applications is a shared responsibility. End-users can help to keep AI safe by providing appropriate inputs, reporting issues etc

AI BREAKTHROUGHS

Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet

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The Synopsis: Anthropic has premiered their new Claude 3.5 family's first model, the Claude 3.5 Sonnet. It defeated in many aspects not only its competitors but also Claude 3 Opus while at the same time offering better speed and cost-effectiveness.

The Essentials :

  • Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available on Claude.ai, the Claude iOS app, Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI among other platforms.

  • The model at a speed of 200% more than Claude 3 Opus, the price of $3 per million tokens for inputs, and $15 per output token has been one of the cost-effective factors.

  • It has more evolved visual processing times, mastering treatment tasks like visual reasoning and text from inaccurate pictures.

  • Anthropic, on Claude.ai, has introduced the functionality "Artifacts", which will provide a dynamic working environment for the interaction of users with AI-generated content.

The Key Takeaway: Claude 3.5 Sonnet is a significant breakthrough in AI technology that comes with improvements in performance, cost, and speed than previous models.

Gemma 2 - Google’s new Open AI LLM

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The Synopsis: Gemma 2, an improved version of Google’s open AI model is released. Gemma 2 comes in two sizes with some key advancements.

The Essentials :

  • Gemma 2 includes the 9B and 27B versions of the model with base and instruction-tuned variants.

    • 27B - Trained with 13Trillion tokens

    • 9B - Trained with 8Trillion Tokens.

  • Sliding window attention, logit soft-capping, knowledge distillation, and model merging are among the key technical advancements.

  • Gemma 2 instruction-tuned versions are optimized using Supervised Fine-tuning (SFT); Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and Model Merging.

  • The models are integrated with Hugging Face Transformers through which one can implement as well as fine-tune them very easily.

The Key Takeaway: Gemma 2 will pave the way for significant advancements in developing AI applications using open AI models. Gemma 2 comes with rules and limits set by Google, which is why it is called an "Open AI model" but not an "Open-Sourced AI model".

Multi-agent AI Systems Framework

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The Synopsis: LlamaIndex introduced “Llama-Agents” for facilitating the creation, iteration and deployment of Multi-Agent AI systems. This framework will help transform agents into production microservices.

The Essentials :

  • LLM-powered Control Plane will manage independent microservice AI agents. AI Agents which are microservices will communicate via the Control Plane orchestrator and a message queue.

  • To determine relevant agents for any given task, developers can define interaction sequences between agents using an “Agentic Orchestrator”.

  • Agents and the control plane can be launched, scaled, and monitored independently. Built-in observability tools help monitor system and agent performance.

  • To get started, you can install the framework using pip: “pip install llama-agents"

The Key Takeaway: With the help of Llama-Agents, the process of building multi-agent systems becomes less complicated; thus, the development of AI applications may continue at a faster pace in different areas.

AI RESEARCH PAPER

Instruction Pre-Training (InstructPT)

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The Synopsis: Instruction Pre-Training (InstructPT) has been developed by Microsoft and Tsinghua University to train the LLMs. The traditional way of training LLMs is to pre-train with raw text.

The Essentials :

  • With this new method, an instruction synthesizer adds instruction-response pairs from raw text to the process. This will teach AI to understand and respond to several tasks.

  • Models learn to handle a wider range of tasks, even new ones. Smaller models can work as well as larger ones, saving money and energy.

  • Models can be trained for specific domains like medicine or finance. Models get better at handling different types of tasks.

  • The system uses smaller, open-source models, making it more accessible. It combines pre-training and fine-tuning, reducing extra work later. The success of this method could lead to more AI advancements.

The Key Takeaway: InstructPT is a combination of pre-training and fine-tuning, being more efficient and accessible, particularly for domain-specific apps. This innovation may alter AI's capacities for the better by cutting on the costs and time the machines will use.

AI ETHICS AND GOVERNANCE

California State AI Bill SB 1047

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The Synopsis: Senator Scott Wiener from California State has presented SB 1047, the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act, which is set to regulate safety standards for the developers of large-scale AI systems

The Essentials :

  • The scope of SB 1047 is constrained to the developers of "covered models," which are the biggest and most powerful AI systems

  • The bill mentions safety assessments, the capability to deactivate AI systems if they behave unsafely, and reporting of incidents

  • The critics of the bill think that the bill could halt innovation and would not be an effective anti-AI catastrophic-service plan

The Key Takeaway: SB 1047 is a crucial one to control AI development in California which houses many big companies developing AI. While it is seen by advocates as a natural progression in ensuring responsible AI development, objectors are anxious regarding its effect on innovation and whether it can provide a solution to the problem of AI-related risks.

MICRO UPDATES

  • NVIDIA provides practical guidance on designing a smart assistant for reading corporate financial statements.

  • Amazon Web Services has presented a smart assistant capable of taking in different forms of information such as text, audio, and numerical to solve issues related to investments

  • Microsoft's Azure Machine Learning is a leader in the data science and machine learning space, and Gartner, a respected technology research company, has recognized it.

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