Fine-tuning of Large Language Models allows customizations of AI models for specific tasks and data. While Fine-tuning used to require a lot of compute, technologies like InstructLab, QLoRA and lam...
watsonx Platform Demos
watsonx is IBM’s AI & data platform that’s built for business. It supports the complete AI lifecycle including Large Language Models, developer tools, governance and more. This post describes a...
Observability for Agents via the Bee Agent Framework
The Bee Agent Framework is an open-source project for building, deploying, and serving powerful multi-agent workflows at scale. One of its strengths is observability. While other frameworks require...
Key Concepts of DeepSeek-R1
The Chinese startup DeepSeek open-sourced their reasoning model DeepSeek-R1 and created several smaller distilled versions. This post summarizes some of the key concepts how the new models have bee...
Getting started with Llama Stack
Llama Stack is an open-source effort from Meta that aims to standardize the core building blocks for AI application development. This post describes how to get started with the stack running on des...
Developing Agents with DSPy
DSPy is a Python-based open-source framework from Stanford university. Developers can write code to build compound systems, for example agents. DSPy is the framework for programming—rather than...
Building Skills for watsonx Assistant via Code
Watsonx Assistant and watsonx Orchestrate are great tools for low-code and no-code developers to build conversational experiences. Additionally, they provide extensibility options for pro-code deve...
Risk Detection via Granite Guardian Models
Granite Guardian models are specialized language models in the Granite family that can detect harms and risks in generative AI systems. This post describes how to get started using them. Recently ...
Open Source Document Parser including OCR
Docling is a popular open-source project contributed by IBM. It supports easy and fast parsing of PDFs and several other file types including images. This post gives a quick introduction to Docling...
Custom Python Tools with the Bee Agent Framework
The Bee Agent Platform is an open-source project from IBM Research to build agentic applications with TypeScript and Python. This post summarizes how to build Python tools. The Bee Agent Platform ...