AI Middleware - Autoize

Nextcloud Context Chat is a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) based feature of Assistant, grounding a large language model’s responses to users’ prompts with the documents & data that they already store in Nextcloud. From Context Chat in the Nextcloud Assistant…

Integrating Nextcloud AI Assistant with Inference Engines & APIs

AI Infrastructure

AI as a Service, AI Assistant, AI Middleware, AI Proxy, ChatGPT Alternative, Generative AI, Locally Hosted AI, NextCloud, Open Source AI

Nextcloud Assistant, featured in the latest versions of Nextcloud Hub, extends the cloud storage & collaboration suite with a range of AI-powered capabilities, including GPT-style chat, text generation, and speech-to-text transcription. With the Smart Picker, you can use these features…

AI Data Loss Prevention (DLP) with Microsoft Presidio

AI Infrastructure

AI Middleware, Azure, GenAI, Generative AI, LibreChat, LiteLLM, Open Source AI, Privacy Protection, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Self Hosted AI

Even if you have deployed an enterprise GPT platform as a dedicated workspace for your organization, it remains best practice to avoid storing unnecessary PII in your AI data infrastructure. In fact, many regulated industries & sectors such as education…

Private Enterprise GPT on Any Cloud with Inference APIs

AI Infrastructure

AI as a Service, AI Middleware, AWS, Azure, GenAI, Generative AI, LibreChat, LiteLLM, Open Source AI, Privacy Protection, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Self Hosted AI

Are your employees using the consumer versions of ChatGPT or Copilot (formerly Bing Chat) without your knowledge? Especially with hybrid work arrangements, this could be surreptitiously happening on employees’ mobile phones or personal laptops – even if company devices are…

OctoAI Acquired by NVIDIA (Shuts Down) – Predictions & Alternatives

AI Infrastructure

AI as a Service, AI Middleware, AI Proxy, Amazon Bedrock, GenAI, Generative AI, LiteLLM, Vertex AI

Since meeting their team virtually at DockerCon 2023, we have seen OctoAI as among the most developer-friendly AIaaS platforms for AI inference and media generation in the market. Their platform treated open models, such as LLaMA and Stable Diffusion as…

Llama 3 AI Model Serving with Ollama & LiteLLM

AI Infrastructure

AI Middleware, AI Proxy, LibreChat, LiteLLM, Llama 3, Ollama, Open AI Models

In mid-Apr 2024, Meta debuted the Llama 3 AI model, the latest iteration of its open source large language model. Compared to its predecessor, Llama 3 was trained on a dataset of 15 trillion tokens — 7X more training data…

Serverless Deployment of AI Middleware, LiteLLM, with Google Cloud Run

AI Infrastructure

AI Middleware, AI Proxy, Azure, Cloud Run, Generative AI, Google Cloud, LiteLLM, Microservices, Open Source AI, PostgreSQL, Serverless

AI middleware is an emerging term for the layer of the technology stack that facilitates the interfacing of AI end user applications with the Large Language Models and GPU-accelerated machines that drive them. Here are the major sub-categories of this…

Proxies & Load Balancers for AI LLM Models (AI Middleware)

AI Infrastructure

AI Middleware, Docker, GenAI, Generative AI, HAProxy, LiteLLM, LLaMA 2, Locally Hosted AI, Ollama, Open LLM Models, OpenAI Compatible API

The Cambrianesque explosion of capable, open Large Language AI Models represents an opportunity to extend virtually any application with AI capabilities, but a strategy for managing multiple AI endpoints is clearly needed. Hosting open models in your own environment requires…