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DeepSeek R1 has upended the AI scene. What does this mean for you? Get supercharged with the power of custom open source GenAI models.

Jorden Woods

Lead Instructor

Radhika Iyengar

Shiva Kintali, PhD

Custom GenAI Models for Business

Stanford University

Princeton University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Harvard University

DeepSeek R1 has taken the AI world by storm. Since 2023 we have been saying that the future of AI is open source. DeepSeek R1 proves it: it’s both powerful and open source so that businesses can get the best GenAI at a fraction of the cost of proprietary competition.&nbsp;&nbsp; Before DeepSeek R1 emerged, businesses were experiencing suboptimal and high costs with large general purpose GenAI models. With our course, take this further and dive into the current trend of smaller, open source models tuned to your business. Over the last few years, our team has deployed custom GenAI models in high performance use cases and has seen big cost savings vs general purpose models, much lower inference latency, and exemplary results on company specific KPIs. From AI basics to the latest techniques and use cases to implementing agentic AI frameworks, we've got you covered. Based on our extensive expertise this course will provide you with the know-how, frameworks, and strategies to take your business to the next level. To future proof your knowledge we cover the latest advances, like RAG, fine-tuning, and agents. You'll also get hands-on experience in a guided workshop with both tech and non-tech tracks focused on a project of your choice. By using domain specific datasets and your own algorithms, custom open source GenAI models are inherently faster, better and cheaper than general purpose models. Upon completing the course you'll understand how to design and build custom GenAI models tailored for greater efficiency, accuracy, safety, privacy, security, and compliance. A perfect fit with your business objectives.

It's time to level-up! Embrace open source GenAI tailored to your business

Product and technical leaders looking to optimize the results from their GenAI models

C-Suite executives and VCs focused on maximizing upside from their GenAI investments

Visionary startup founders and creative innovators intent on building the next AI Unicorn

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What you’ll get out of this course

Produce better results that are fit for purpose at much lower cost than generic pre-trained models by leveraging custom models with your proprietary data.

Understand how to optimize the results and maximize the returns from GenAI

Go beyond AI fundamentals by leveraging the best strategies and frameworks to craft custom GenAI models that are tailored to your business needs.

Discover the best frameworks for designing custom GenAI models

Determine the best approaches for integrating GenAI custom models with your applications to maximize the business opportunity.

Explore how companies can use GenAI successfully for real use cases

Gain insights from tech policy experts on how to navigate the rapidly changing regulatory landscape and how to overcome inherent challenges in current GenAI models.

Know how to minimize risks and challenges in your custom GenAI models

Investigate the most current tools and open source LLMs in a dedicated guided workshop session in either a no-code or coding environment

Get hands-on experience with the latest  models and techniques

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All sessions have a 2-hour duration &amp; take place from 4 -6 pm PST.

Mondays & Wednesdays

The course takes place during the second half of June and first week of July with a hands-on guided workshop session in week 3

First Day is June 21, 2024

Each class will have a homework project that you can complete in about 1 hour. The homework will give you hands on experience with each topic.

Weekly projects

Course schedule

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Active hands-on learning

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Interactive and project-based

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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