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 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...

IBM has open-sourced another great tool for Generative AI engineers and developers. With the Data Prep Kit data can be prepared for Fine-tuning and Retrieval Augmented Generation. Data Prep Kit is...

At the ChatBot Summit in Berlin I gave a talk ‘How to understand why Agents fail’. Below is a transcript and the slides. As you all know there is a lot of innovation and buzz around agents and age...

Agentic systems leverage multiple agents and multiple tools. These agents and tools can be developed and hosted by different providers. To allow inter-agent communication and to access different da...

SmolDocling is an ultra-compact, open-source Vision Language Model for document conversion including OCR. This post summarizes the key features and demonstrates how to get started. SmolDocling is ...

My colleague Thomas Harrer interviewed me about agentic systems and fine-tuning. Below is the recording and the transcript. Watch Let’s Create Technology Talk with Niklas Heidloff about Artificial...

Watsonx.ai provides various Large Language Models and Embedding Models out of the box. Models that are not supported by the watsonx.ai inference stack can be deployed via Python Functions. Watsonx...

Recently watsonx Orchestrate has added support for agentic capabilities. Orchestration agents can route to assistants, skills and agents. This post focusses on the routing to agents and their tools...

Recently watsonx Orchestrate has added support for agentic capabilities. Orchestration agents can route to assistants, skills and agents. This post focusses on the routing to skills, skill flows an...