With the rise of Generative AI, 2025 is all set to extend the realm of building intelligent apps to accelerate productivity and efficiency. While LangChain (launched in 2022) became the first popular framework for building LLM-based applications, open-source and product communities have started innovating faster to make building such applications easier. Agentic AI has emerged as one of the most promising GenAI building blocks in 2025, and a desperate set…
Read MoreKey Takeaways from State of AI Report 2024
For the last six years (starting in 2018), AI investors Nathan Benaich and Air Street Capital have consistently published the State of AI Report. This article summarizes key takeaways from the 2024 report published here, along with the author’s interpretation of model cards, industry reports, research reports, and more available publicly. #1 – Frontier lab performance converges, but OpenAI maintains its edge following the launch of o1 (aka Strawberry) When…
Read MoreBuilding Gen AI Apps with Snowflake Cortex as a Foundational AI Platform
An illustrative blog with a reference application applying Snowflake Cortex With Generative AI in mainstream adoption, Snowflake has shared its Generative AI Vision in the past to bring Gen AI and LLMs closer to the customers’ data. Snowflake’s Cortex AI is their fully managed service (GA on May 24) to manage LLMs and the entire lifecycle for diverse business and technical users: This article shares the key architecture and design approaches and related components…
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