Maximizing Generative AI Potential

“The answer is to extend and customize a model to make it smart about your own business. While hosted models like ChatGPT have gotten most of the attention, there is a long and growing list of LLMs that enterprises can download, customize, and use behind the firewall — including open-source models like StarCoder from Hugging Face and StableLM from Stability AI."—How to minimize data risk for generative AI and LLMs in the enterprise | VentureBeat
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