"I Want My Own ChatGPT with My Company's Data"

Companies face a sea of options. Our wildly incomplete list.

Lots of companies want their own ChatGPT-like experience with more control and using their own data. This note is an incomplete list of emerging solutions from complex to simple.

Join us next Monday at 7p EST at our weekly Learning Lab for a?case study of how a non profit used a product called CustomGPT to build a chatbot that leverages company-specific PDFs and other data in days.

Here are some of the many requirements that companies have for enterprise-grade chatbots

• Train on my company data (e.g. PDFs, Wikis and Slack channels for product info)
• Clear data provenance
• Control which data are used for training (avoid bias or have industry specific data set)
• Avoid using training that may have violated copyright laws, TOS agreements, and defamation laws
• Links to source documents
• No “hallucinations” or wildly incorrect answers, or at least widely reduced
• Easy way to manage guardrail rules
• Behind my firewire (only employee access phase 1 for security and privacy concerns or a configuration that is not connected to public internet yet
• Own my own ML models
• Quick time to deploy for proof of concept and learning
• Cost effective
• Avoid vendor lock-in
• Strong ROI

The buy vs build calculus gets complex but some vendors and consultants argue that build is not cost prohibitive. Cost estimates for company specific LLM vary widely based on requirements and tools used

• Some estimate that a company-specific LLM is at least an $2-6M investment
• MosaicML claims?that $30,000 investment can support LLM with 7B parameters that meets many corporate use cases
• Affordable/free company-specific chatbots (join us this Monday?for a case study of chatbot deployed in days)

Our incomplete list of products for company-specific “ChatGPT-like” offerings (corrections valued)

Deploy open source LLM and other tools

• SambaNovaSystems?(raised $1.1B). tag line “The most accurate generative AI models, optimized for enterprise and government”
• MosaicML tagline: “enables you to easily train and deploy large AI models on your data, in your secure environment:

Leverage foundational models (ChatGPT, etc.)

• Microsoft Co-Pilot “Microsoft is committed to helping companies own their data and the output'“
• Open AI
• MyAsk. tagline: “ChatGPT with your own content, add it anywhere”
• CustomGPT. tagline: “Creates Your Own ChatGPT With ALL Your Business Content”

LLM models

• Open Source models:?Hugging Face
• Dolly from Data Bricks: “Democratizing the magic of ChatGPT with open models”

Message me corrections and your thoughts.

Learn the basics of ChatGPT to be more confident with your customers, your boss, and your investors with our 90 min webinar on May 16. We know you are busy. Invest $99 and feel more confident at work.

Purchase tickets?here.

Class objectives

• Learn how to use ChatGPT for basic as well as sophisticated business use cases
• See 10 business use cases examples that will absolutely blow your mind
• Learn how to explain ChatGPT to anyone at a basic level
• Understand the key limitations and differences with Microsoft Bing AI and Google Bard
• Get your questions answered by a human

When: Tuesday, May 16 at 12pm to 1:30pm EST, 9am to 10:30am PST

Cost: $99 for a 90 min Zoom class. Receipts for expense reimbursement are available.

For just $99 and 90 minutes, confidently grasp the fundamentals of ChatGPT and learn to apply them and discuss them in your business environment.

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Praise for ChatGPTnuggets

• "Paul spends the time in the trenches listening to practitioners and drives to the essence of what I should care about. An invaluable resource!”—?Jack Phillips, CEO of International Institute for Analytics
• ChatGPTnuggets is a treasure trove of invaluable insights and updates, all related to the cutting-edge developments in ChatGPT technology" --?Siddharth Kundalkar, Senior Director of Engineering at Nuance (Microsoft)
• "ChatGPTnuggets is a practical, time effective way to understand the business opportunity that AI is driving" -?Robert Davoli, successful venture capitalist

Instructor Bio

Paul Baier?is the founder of ChatGPTNuggets, which is dedicated to exploring business applications of ChatGPT and related AI technology. It has the largest ChatGPT Meetup group in the United States. With 100s hours of personal experience using ChatGPT and training others about its capabilities, he is an accomplished expert in this emerging field. Mr. Baier has facilitated insightful vision sessions and interactive workshops on ChatGPT for Harvard Business School, MIT, corporations and investment firms. He was the first to publish a collection of?15 verified ChatGPT video use cases with high ROI, and his email newsletter has emerged as a "must read" by technologists, executives, and investors. Mr. Baier served as the Vice President of Products at an AI company for five years and has worked in the software industry for VC-backed companies for 20 years. He holds degrees from Harvard Business School and Kenyon College.

Boston folks: join us tomorrow at 6p for networking at Time Out Market Boston. RSVP?here

Onward,

Paul