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Your business data is valuable. Get supercharged with the power of custom GenAI models that understand and prioritize your business.

Jorden Woods

Lead Instructor

Radhika Iyengar

Shiva Kintali, PhD

Custom GenAI Models for Business

Stanford University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Harvard University

Princeton University

Problem: Today many enterprises are experiencing suboptimal results and high costs with large general purpose models. Importantly a vast majority do not trust current foundational models with their data and brand. Since 2023 we've been underscoring that the future of AI for business is based on small open source models fine-tuned with high quality data and built on safe/responsible frameworks. While the DeepSeek R1 moment proved that open source solutions can deliver powerful GenAI at low cost, it's critical to upgrade the data your models use for inference plus the frameworks they rely on to move to the next level. Solution: With our course, dive into the current trend of smaller, open source models tuned to your business. By using high quality, domain specific datasets, the right training methods, and your own algorithms, you can build custom GenAI models that are better, faster, and cheaper to operate. Also, ensure that your models are built on safe/responsible frameworks to safeguard your corporate governance plus data privacy &amp; confidentiality. We’ll guide you through a proven process we’ve honed over the last few years.&nbsp;Our team’s practical experience in deploying custom GenAI models in high performance use cases has resulted in big cost savings vs general purpose models, much lower inference latency, and exemplary results on company specific KPIs. We’ve got you covered: We’ll take you from AI basics to the latest techniques and use cases to implementing the best training methods (like Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, RLHF). We'll also give you insights into the most productive responsible AI frameworks and key principles behind AI safety, plus hands-on practical methods for deploying agentic AI models. You’ll leverage our extensive expertise to gain valuable know-how, frameworks, and strategies to take your business to the next level. ﻿Future proof your understanding: Get ahead with the latest advances, like RAG, fine-tuning, agents/MCP/A2A, and responsible development. Get hands-on experience in a guided workshop with both tech and non-tech tracks focused on a project of your choice. The Results: 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 custom GenAI models 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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