This week was very hot because Google published Gemma, a smal-size LLM, and also Nvidia has a rush on stock market, with a evaluation around 2000 BILLIONS dollars. Last but not least, Mistral.ai published a service for its more advanced model, which can also run on-prem.

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Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images or other data using generative models, often in response to prompts.

Generative AI models learn the patterns and structure of their input training data and then generate new data that has similar characteristics. This similarity is probability-based.

At low level, these systems are based on Transformer deep-learning architecture and are called generative pre-trained transformer  (GPT) first defined in 2018 (for a complete description refer to Wikipedia)

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Ebbene sì, dopo oltre un anno dalla sua uscita, e nonostante la crisi imperante, ho deciso di acquistare un Mac Mini M1.

Dopo anni di onoratissimo servizio (nonché modding con disco SSD rimpiazzato al posto del CDROM), il MacBook 2009 era non aggiornabile e benché ancora perfettamente funzionante è stato al momento spento.

Ma andiamo ad iniziare…

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