We recently gathered some Practical AI listeners for a live webinar with Danny from LibreChat to discuss the future of private, open source chat UIs. During the discussion we hear about the motivations behind LibreChat, why enterprise users are hosting their own chat UIs, and how Danny (and the LibreChat community) is creating amazing features (like RAG and plugins).

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Featuring:
Danny Avila – TwitterChris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Register for our next webinar (similar to this one) focused on multimodal AI
LibreChat
Prediction Guard


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Private, open source chat UIs

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We’ve all heard about breaches of privacy and leaks of private health information (PHI). For healthcare providers and those storing this data, knowing where all the sensitive data is stored is non-trivial. Ramin, from Tausight, joins us to discuss how they have deploy edge AI models to help company search through billions of records for PHI.

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Ramin Mohammadi – GitHub, LinkedInDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

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Tausight


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Using edge models to find sensitive data

We’ve seen a rise in interest recently and a number of major announcements related to local LLMs and AI PCs. NVIDIA, Apple, and Intel are getting into this along with models like the Phi family from Microsoft. In this episode, we dig into local AI tooling, frameworks, and optimizations to help you navigate this AI niche, and we talk about how this might impact AI adoption in the longer term.

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Featuring:
Chris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

Ollama
LM Studio
llama.cpp
OpenVINO
MLPerf client working group
Article - 5 top small language models
GPTQ article
Article - Which quantization method is right for you


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Rise of the AI PC & local LLMs

At the age of 72, U.S. Representative Don Beyer of Virginia enrolled at GMU to pursue a Master’s degree in C.S. with a concentration in Machine Learning.
Rep. Beyer is Vice Chair of the bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Caucus & Vice Chair of the NDC’s AI Working Group.  He is the author of the AI Foundation Model Transparency Act & a lead cosponsor of the CREATE AI Act, the Federal Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Act & the Artificial Intelligence Environmental Impacts Act.
We hope you tune into this inspiring, nonpartisan conversation with Rep. Beyer about his decision to dive into the deep end of the AI pool & his leadership in bringing that expertise to Capitol Hill.

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Featuring:
Don Beyer – Twitter, LinkedInChris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

U.S. Representative Don Beyer
Congressman Don Beyer, Mason student and lifelong learner
Beyer Statement On President Biden’s AI Executive Order
Beyer Appointed To Bipartisan Task Force On Artificial Intelligence


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AI in the U.S. Congress

Daniel & Chris share their first impressions of OpenAI’s newest LLM: GPT-4o and Daniel tries to bring the model into the conversation with humorously mixed results.  Together, they explore the implications of Omni’s new feature set - the speed, the voice interface, and the new multimodal capabilities.

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Featuring:
Daniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteChris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

Hello GPT-4o
AI Engineer World’s Fair
AIQCON - the AI Quality Conference
Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing)


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First impressions of GPT-4o

There’s a lot of hype about AI agents right now, but developing robust agents isn’t yet a reality in general. Imbue is leading the way towards more robust agents by taking a full-stack approach; from hardware innovations through to user interface. In this episode, Josh, Imbue’s CTO, tell us more about their approach and some of what they have learned along the way.

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Featuring:
Josh Albrecht – Twitter, LinkedInChris Benson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteDaniel Whitenack – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

CARBS (Imbue’s cost-aware hyperparameter optimizer)
Imbue paper on the stepwise nature of self-supervised learning
A paper on initialization/feature learning co-authored by Jamie Simon, a member of Imbue’s technical team
Imbue


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Private, open source chat UIs

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