With all the talk in the industry today regarding large language models with their encoders, decoders, multi-headed attention layers, and billions (soon trillions) of parameters, it is tempting to believe that good AI is the result of model design only. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Good AI requires more than a well-designed model. It also requires properly constructed training

MLOps, short for Machine Learning Operations, is a set of practices and tools aimed at addressing the specific needs of engineers building models and moving them into production. Some organizations start off with a few homegrown tools that version datasets after each experiment and checkpoint models after every epoch of training. On the other hand, many organizations have chosen to

tl;dr: In this post, we will explore four technical reasons why AI workloads rely on high performance object store.  1. No Limits on Unstructured Data In the current paradigm of machine learning, performance and ability scales with compute, which is really a proxy for dataset size and model size (Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models, Kaplan et. al.). Over

In my previous post on MLRun, we set up a development machine with all the tools needed to experiment with MLRun. Specifically, we used a docker-compose file to create containers for the MLRun UI, the MLRun API Service, Nuclio, MinIO, and a Jupyter service. Once our containers started, we ran a simple smoke test to ensure everything was working correctly.

MinIO’s co-founder and CEO AB Periasamy was recently featured on the AI in Business Podcast where he had a rich conversation with Matthew DeMello—Senior Editor at Emerj—about AI infrastructure and object storage for enterprises.  In this blog post, we take you through an abridged version of what was discussed. Let’s get into it.  AB and Matthew

MLOps is to machine learning what DevOps is to traditional software development. Both are a set of practices and principles aimed at improving collaboration between engineering teams (the Dev or ML) and IT operations (Ops) teams. The goal is to streamline the development lifecycle, from planning and development to deployment and operations, using automation. One of the primary benefits of

If you are implementing a generative AI solution using Large Language Models (LLMs), you should consider a strategy that uses Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to build contextually aware prompts for your LLM. An important process that occurs in the preproduction pipeline of a RAG-enabled LLM is the chunking of document text so that only the most relevant sections of a document