In 2024, organizations realized the revolutionizing business potential of gen AI. They accelerated their gen AI operationalization processes: explored new use cases to implement, researched LLMs and AI pipelines and contemplated underlying ethical issues. And with the seeds of the AI revolution now planted, the market is maturing accordingly.

LLMs are the foundation of gen AI applications. To effectively operationalize and de-risk LLMs and ensure they bring business value, organizations need to consider not just the model itself, but the supporting infrastructure, including GPUs and operational frameworks. By optimizing them to your use case, you can ensure you are using an LLM that is the right fit to your needs.

As the open-source maintainers of MLRun, we’re proud to announce the release of MLRun v1.7. MLRun is an open-source AI orchestration tool that accelerates the deployment of gen AI applications, with features such as LLM monitoring, fine-tuning, data management, guardrails and more. We provide ready-made scenarios that can be easily implemented by teams in organizations.

Gen AI has the potential to bring immense value for marketing use cases, from content creation to hyper-personalization to product insights, and many more. But if you’re struggling to scale and operationalize gen AI, you’re not alone. That’s where most enterprises struggle. To date, many companies are still in the excitement and exploitation phase of gen AI. Few have a number of initial pilots deployed and even fewer have simultaneous pilots and are building differentiating use cases.

If 2023 was the year of gen experimentation, 2024 is the year of gen AI implementation. As companies embark on their implementation journey, they need to deal with a host of challenges, like performance, GPU efficiency and LLM risks. These challenges are exacerbated in highly-regulated industries, such as financial services and telecommunication, adding further implementation complexities. Below, we discuss these challenges and present some best practices and solutions to take into consideration.

AI and generative Al can lead to major enterprise advancements and productivity gains. By offering new capabilities, they open up opportunities for enhancing customer engagement, content creation, virtual experts, process automation and optimization, and more.

RAG and Fine-Tuning are two prominent LLM customization approaches. While RAG involves providing external and dynamic resources to trained models, fine-tuning involves further training on specialized datasets, altering the model. Each approach can be used for different use cases. In this blog post, we explain each approach, compare the two and recommend when to use them and which pitfalls to avoid.

As can be inferred from their name, foundation models are the foundation upon which developers build AI applications for tasks like language translation, text summarization, sentiment analysis and more. Models such as OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini, Meta’s Llama and Anthropic’s Claude, are pre-trained on vast amounts of text data and have the capability to understand and generate human-like language.

Enterprises are beginning to implement gen AI across use cases, realizing its enormous potential to deliver value. Since we are all charting new technological waters, being mindful of recommended strategies, pitfalls to avoid and lessons learned can assist with the process and help drive business impact and productivity. In this blog post, we provide a number of frameworks that can help enterprises effectively implement and scale gen AI while avoiding risk.

The generative AI industry is changing fast. New models and technologies (Hello GPT-4o) are emerging regularly, each more advanced than the last. This rapid development cycle means that what was cutting-edge a year ago might now be considered outdated. The rate of change demands a culture of continuous learning and technological adaptation.