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AI Models Demystified

Understand what AI models are, how they learn, the major types (LLM, embedding, vision, multimodal, diffusion), and how to choose the right model and provider for any task.

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3 lessons

  1. 1How an AI model works, and how it learnedUnderstand that a language model cannot look answers up, because there are far too many possible sentences. Instead it predicts the next token, again and again, using odds it learned from reading. Temperature controls how predictable or creative those picks are. · about 9 min
  2. 2Different jobs need different modelsName the main kinds of AI model and the job each one does. Understand that each kind comes in versions (frontier, small and fast, open-source) that trade quality, speed, cost and privacy against each other, so the best model is the one that fits your need. · about 10 min
  3. 3Choose the right model, and show whyUse a simple method to choose a model for a real situation: name the task, set the hard limits, make a shortlist, pick one and explain why. See the pick run, and learn what drives the cost. · about 13 min

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