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🚀 Milestone Reached: 2 Million Downloads!🚀 We are thrilled to announce that our Hughes Hallucination Detection Model (HHEM) has officially reached 2 million cumulative downloads on Hugging Face! What an exciting journey it's been—HHEM launched just last November, and only three weeks ago, we celebrated 1 million downloads. Now, with our downloads doubling, we couldn’t be more grateful to the incredible community of researchers, developers, and AI experts supporting this work. This recent acceleration is a very clear indication that the RAG AI Assistant market is maturing and moving into more production mission-critical use cases where the accuracy of the results is paramount. A massive thank you to all who are using HHEM to bring more factual consistency to AI Assistants and Agents. Here’s to even more innovation and growth ahead! Want to learn more about HHEM’s journey and how we’re continuing the fight against LLM hallucinations? Check out our latest blog post for all the details: https://bit.ly/4h1f8sy 📖 #GenAI #NLP #HallucinationDetection #MachineLearning #RAGaaS

What an incredible evening at Google's Pyrmont office for GenAI Lab's first birthday celebration! Our Chief Program Officer, Sarina Hinduja, joined fellow founders as three remarkable entrepreneurs shared their journeys in reshaping Australia's AI landscape. We were honoured to share our journey of building Kangaroo LLM - Australia's first open-source large language model designed specifically for Australian English and culture. A huge thank you to Alex Zinoviev and the GenAI Lab community (1200+ members strong!) for fostering these valuable conversations about AI innovation in Australia. The energy and collaboration in the room reminded us why we're so passionate about developing an AI model that's as true-blue Aussie as a Vegemite sandwich! Special shout-out to Angela Shi (Empathetic AI), Jacky Koh (Relevance AI), and James Gabb (Sauce AI) for sharing their inspiring founder journeys and insights. And of course, thanks to Google and Vectara for hosting and sponsoring this memorable evening! Together, we're building Australia's AI future! 🦘 #KangarooLLM #AustralianAI #GenAILabs #AIInnovation #OpenSourceAI #BuildingInPublic #TechAU

🚀 The future of education is here, and Vectara's GenAI is leading the way! 🎓 Discover how generative AI can reduce teacher burnout, improve student outcomes, and manage costs—all while ensuring privacy and security. Check out our Executive Brief on how Vectara's RAG-as-a-Service is transforming the education sector: https://lnkd.in/gAWBvwie Ready to embrace the power of AI in education? Dive into the details and see how our solution can help you thrive in today’s ever-evolving landscape.

NYC, we’re taking RAG on the Road straight to your doorstep! Join us on November 12, 2024, at Alumni Ventures for a one-day, immersive dive into Retrieval-Augmented Generation (#RAG) with the Vectara ML team. Whether you're just starting with AI or looking to enhance your enterprise-grade implementations, this is your chance to learn from the pros. 🔗 FREE registration here: https://bit.ly/3TXqdkG Let’s build the future together! 💡

The buzz around #GenerativeAI is everywhere, but where can you find genuine insights from those shaping its future? 🎙️ Check out the Generation AI podcast, where Vectara’s Ofer Mendelevitch and Sean Anderson explore what’s next in AI with industry trailblazers. Follow the conversation on Spotify 👇

Super exciting presentation today at Nisca's Boston AI Wealth and Asset Management Summit on the "7 Common Pitfalls when Building Financial RAG Systems" Please reach out if your interested or comment below and we can share the presentation with you. Thank you to Jeff Chapman and to all the new friends we made at the show. Vectara #financialservicesRAG #financialservicesAI #AI

📸 Day 2 Recap: AI Innovations and Mastering Alts 📸 We started Day 2 with an enlightening Sponsored Breakfast Session hosted by Jeff Chapman from Vectara on the “7 Common Pitfalls when Building Financial RAG Systems.” Jeff's talk sparked valuable insights on creating in-house platforms. Next, Brian Moran, CIMA, CEO of FLX Networks, took the stage for AI-Powered: The Entrepreneur's Story. His journey underscored the transformative potential of AI for entrepreneurial success, offering the audience inspiring, real-world examples. After a quick networking break, we reconvened for Implementation of Artificial Intelligence: Getting to Results. Moderated by Vanessa Touma, this panel featured Rob Pettman and Zar Toolan and explored strategies to translate AI concepts into actionable results, providing attendees with a roadmap for practical AI implementation. Wrapping up Day 2, we dove into Mastering Alts: Onboarding & Educating Advisors led by Kirsten Pickens and featuring industry experts Joanna Berg, CFA, Adam Pennacchio, CIMA, and Claire Sawyer. This session emphasized the importance of robust advisor education and onboarding strategies as Alts become increasingly democratized in wealth management. Thank you to all our speakers and attendees for a fantastic Summit! #NicsaSummit #ArtificialIntelligence #AlternativeInvestments

🔥 We’ve got something special! 🔥 In collaboration with DeepLearning.AI, we’re launching "Embedding Models: from Architecture to Implementation." 📚 Curious about embeddings? Get a complete breakdown with these sessions: -Basics of Embedding Models -Contextualized Token Embedding Strategies -Key Differences: Token vs Sentence Embeddings -Hands-on Training for Dual Encoders -Implementing Embedding Models in the Field Ideal for anyone aiming to fine-tune RAG accuracy and reduce hallucinations in real-world deployments. Ready to jump in? 🚀

One more sleep!!! 🚀🚀 Google is hosting the next edition of GenAI Lab tomorrow night! 3 founders of Sydney-based AI companies will share their product innovation journeys with us (how lucky are we! 😍) For those who nabbed tickets ~ 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: Thursday, 31st of October 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Google | Building #2, 1 Darling Island Road, Pyrmont, 2009 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: 5:30pm networking for a 6pm start! Speakers ... 🥁🥁🥁 ~🎙️ James Gabb | Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Sauce AI ~🎙️ Angela Shi | Founder & CEO @ Empathetic AI ~🎙️ Jacky Koh | Co-Founder @ Relevance AI 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤: https://lnkd.in/gQkB5W5Q 🎉 Thank you to our sponsors Google and Vectara! It's going to be a great night with some giveaways and announcements. See you all there 👀 #AI #Founders #GenAILab Alex Zinoviev Kristin de la Fuente Kyra Blake

🎂 Happy 1st birthday to GenAI Lab: the fastest growing GenAI community Meetup for product builders. Vectara & Google are excited to be sponsoring with a big thanks to Alex Zinoviev and his crew. David Levy & I look forward to seeing you there with plenty of swag and giveaways! 🥳 https://lnkd.in/gm9vCR9t 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐞: Thursday, 31st of October 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: 5:30pm networking for a 6pm start. 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: Google | Building #2, 1 Darling Island Road, Pyrmont, 2009 Featured Speakers: 🎤 James Gabb - Co-Founder & Co-CEO Sauce AI 🎤 Angela Shi - Founder & CEO Empathetic AI 🎤 Jacky Koh - Co-Founder Relevance AI #GenAISydney #RetrievalAugmentedGeneration #GenAIforbuilders