Fine-Tuning AI Models: Comparing the Costs of OpenAI vs Azure OpenAI

Understand the differences in pricing between Azure OpenAI and OpenAI for fine-tuning AI models, with a detailed analysis of token and hosting costs.

November 30, 2023 · 8 min

Resources for Building an Internet-Connected Search Assistant from Scratch (Poor Man’s BingChat)

These are the slides and notebook I’ve used during my talk on how to build an Internet-connected search assistant almost from scratch. AKA Poor Man’s BingChat. First time I talked about it was at Codecamp Iasi, where it’s gotten a lot of positive feedback, plus it was awesome to share the stage with established speakers (and personal heroes of mine) like Mark Richards, Venkat Subramaniam, Eoin Woods, and Dylan Beattie. Yes, you can see them in the hero picture 😱....

November 27, 2023 · 14 min · Vlad Iliescu

How I Used OpenAI's Models to Transcribe, Summarize, Illustrate, and Narrate their DevDay Keynote

I heard you like OpenAI, so I used OpenAI’s Whisper to transcribe the OpenAI DevDay Keynote, OpenAI GPT-4 Turbo to summarize the transcript, come up with ideas that illustrate the main points and generate DALL-E prompts for said ideas, OpenAI DALL·E 3 to generate the images, and OpenAI Text to Speech to narrate the summary. Xzibit would be like, so proud.

November 14, 2023 · 12 min

Running Llama2 on Apple Silicon with llama.cpp

Recently, I was curious to see how easy it would be to run run Llama2 on my MacBook Pro M2, given the impressive amount of memory it makes available to both CPU and GPU. This led me to the excellent llama.cpp, a project focused on running simplified versions of the Llama models on both CPU and GPU. The process felt quite straightforward except for some instability in the llama.cpp repo just as I decided to try it out, and which has been fixed in the meantime....

September 20, 2023 · 3 min

The One Where Bing Becomes Chandler: A Study on Prompt Injection in Bing Chat

An experiment with prompt injecting Bing Chat – successfully changing its persona, exploring data extraction potential, limitations, and future implications.

April 10, 2023 · 9 min