Stuart Battersby
January 31, 2025
DeepSeek & Qwen in the news It would be hard to read the technology news this week without reading about DeepSeek’s R1 model. To make an understatement… it was covered a lot. And the reaction has been incredible. Not only the moves in the stock market, but major technology organizations are taking note. Meta for […]
Stuart Battersby
January 27, 2025
Last week, Chinese research lab DeepSeek (founded in 2023 by quantitative trader Liang Wenfeng) rocked the AI world with the launch of their open source reasoning model, R1. This model scores exceptionally well on key capability benchmarks. What’s causing waves, however, isn’t just the capability of this reasoning model, it’s the cost and time required […]
Stuart Battersby
January 10, 2025
New frontier models tested for AI safety Today we announce the latest additions to our AI Safety & Security research, using our patented AIMI software which automatically safety tests AI models & associated guardrails. Foundational models from OpenAI (o1-preview), Anthropic (Claude Haiku 3.5 and the updated Claude Sonnet 3.5), Cohere (Command R7B), Microsoft (Phi-4) […]
Stuart Battersby
July 12, 2024
After generative AI burst onto the enterprise tech scene (powered by a rather large kick from OpenAI), business people who didn’t usually talk about AI really started getting enthused by its potential. This included senior executives who, armed with this newfound generative AI started allocating new, sizable budgets. This was great for the AI industry, […]
Stuart Battersby
June 7, 2024
I recently wrote about small language models as the future of enterprise generative AI; here I want to build on this to look specifically at the implications of mass adoption of generative AI models on-device (that is, running locally on your laptop, tablet or phone). With hundreds of millions of laptops and over a billion […]
Stuart Battersby
May 31, 2024
Generative AI, and particularly LLMs, are gaining business traction. However, as organizations move from testing, experiments and proof of concepts to production deployments that can have material impacts on businesses, teams must consider how to do this in the right way for their business. There are generally two options to use: (Very) large language models […]
Stuart Battersby
February 29, 2024
With the explosion of interest in generative AI, particularly with large language models (LLMs) in an enterprise context, one of the most interesting things is that the AI discussion now includes businesspeople who didn’t typically talk about AI, or had never even considered an enterprise use case for AI. Now they are. As a technologist […]
Stuart Battersby
November 24, 2022
What is unique about machine learning and AI compared to traditional rules-based systems? Well, amongst various things, a key point is that AI learns from a training dataset instead of explicitly being coded with rules to follow. There is a huge focus on Responsible AI (aka Ethical or Trustworthy AI) – and rightly so. However, […]
Stuart Battersby
September 16, 2022
Business leaders are starting to realize that, when building AI or machine learning solutions, we need more transparency in the process. It’s no longer OK to just seek the best accuracy when building these systems. Unfortunately, many AI business processes still do primarily focus on performance – and there are many models already in production […]
Stuart Battersby
July 7, 2022
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming prevalent across all business sectors. Whilst the big headlines focus on use cases like self-driving cars and digital assistants such as Alexa, most of the time AI technologies are used to automate human decision making in less flashy scenarios. Your credit card or mortgage application is likely reviewed by an […]