AI++ Multimodale Large Language Models als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action Christian Weyer Co-Founder & CTO @christianweyer

§ Technology catalyst § AI-powered solutions § Pragmatic end-to-end architectures § Microsoft Regional Director § Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies & Azure ASPInsider, AzureInsider § Google GDE for Web Technologies [email protected] @christianweyer https://www.thinktecture.com Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action Christian Weyer Co-Founder & CTO @ Thinktecture AG 2

Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action Our journey today 3 AI all-the- things? LLMs in your Solutions Talk to your Data Exciting Times… Democratizing Generative AI Talk to your Systems

Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action AI all-the-things? 4

Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action AI all-the-things? 5 Data Science Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Unsupervised, supervised, reinforcement learning Deep Learning ANN, CNN, RNN etc. NLP (Natural Language Processing) Generative AI GAN, VAE, Transformers etc. Image / Video Generation GAN, VAE Large Language Models Transformers

§ LLMs generate text based on input § LLMs can understand text – this changes a lot § Without having to train them on domains or use cases § Prompts are the universal interface (“UI”) → unstructured text with semantics § Human language evolves as a first-class citizen in software architecture 🤯 Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action Large Language Models (LLMs) – like GPT powering ChatGPT 6 Text… – really, just text?

§ LLMs are programs § LLMs are highly specialized neural networks § LLMs use(d) lots of data § LLMs need a lot of resources to be operated § LLMs have an API to be used through Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action Large Language Models demystified 🔍 7

Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action LLMs in your Solutions 8

Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action Using LLMs: It’s just HTTP APIs Inference, FTW. 9

GPT-4 API access OpenAI Playground Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action DEMO 10

§ Barebones SDKs § Abstraction over HTTP APIs § E.g. Open AI SDK, Mistral SDK § Available for any programming language § Also available from other LLM providers § Or: Abstracing frameworks Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action Building LLM-based end-to-end applications 11

§ OSS framework for developing applications powered by LLMs § > 1000 contributors § Python and Typescript versions § Chains for sequences of LLM-related actions in code § Abstractions for § Prompts & LLMs (local and remote) § Memory § Vector stores § Tools § Loading text from a wide range of sources § Alternatives like LlamaIndex, Haystack, etc. Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action LangChain - building LLM-based applications 12

§ Microsoft’s open-source framework to integrate LLMs into applications § .NET, Python, and Java versions § Plugins encapsulate AI capabilities § Semantic functions for prompting § Native functions to run local code § Chain is collection of Plugins § Planners are similar to Agents in LangChain § Not as broad feature set as LangChain § E.g., no concept/abstraction for loading & working with data Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action Semantic Kernel 13

Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action Talk to your Data 14

Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action Answering Questions on Data Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) Cleanup & Split Text Embedding Question Text Embedding Save Query Relevant Text Question Answer LLM 15 Embedding model Embedding model 💡 Indexing / Embedding Question Answering Vector DB

RAG: Learning about company’s policies via Slack LangChain, Weaviate – GPT-4o Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action DEMO 16

Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action Talk to your Systems 17

§ Write or speak your input → get structured data for your programs & systems § Clever & strict prompting § Schema description: JSON, TypeScript types, etc. § Framework or tools support § Pydantic, Kor, TypeChat, etc. § Open AI Function / Tool Calling Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action Extract structured data from textual information 18

Extracting structured data from text & voice: Form filling JSON extraction, OpenAI JS SDK, Angular Forms - Mixtral-8x7B on Groq Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action DEMO 19

Extracting structured data from PDF Python SDK, OpenAI Tool Calling - GPT-4o Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action DEMO 20 Multimodal

§ Integrate LLM-external systems to aid LLMs § Tool / function calling standard established by OpenAI § LLM outputs JSON containing arguments to call one or many functions § LLM does not call the function § All major libs support tool calling § OpenAI SDKs § LangChain § Semantic Kernel § etc. Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action Extending LLM capabilities 21 curl https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY" \ -d '{ "model": "gpt-3.5-turbo", "messages": [ { "role": "user", "content": "What is the weather like in Boston?" } ], "tools": [ { "type": "function", "function": { "name": "get_current_weather", "description": "Get the current weather in a given location", "parameters": { "type": "object", "properties": { "location": { "type": "string", "description": "The city and state, e.g. San Francisco, CA" }, "unit": { "type": "string", "enum": ["celsius", "fahrenheit"] } }, "required": ["location"] } } } ], "tool_choice": "auto" }'

Ask for experts availability in my company systems Angular, Speech-to-text, internal HTTP API, node.js OpenAI SDK + Tool Calling, Text-to-speech – GPT-4o Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action DEMO 22

Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action Talking to internal APIs – Ask for experts availability 23 Angular PWA Open AI Speech-to-Text Internal Systems Gateway Open AI GPT-4 Open AI Text-to-Speech Transcribe spoken text Transcribed text Check for experts availability with text Extract { experts, booking times } from text Structured JSON data (Tool calling) Generate response with availability Response Response with experts availability 🗣 🔉 Speech-to-text for response Response audio Internal Company API Query Availability API Availability When is CL…? CL will be…

Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action Democratizing Generative AI 24

Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action LLMs everywhere OpenAI-related (cloud) OpenAI Azure OpenAI Service Big cloud providers Google Model Garden on Vertex AI Amazon Bedrock Open-source Edge IoT Server Desktop Mobile Web 25 Other providers Antrophic Cohere Mistral AI Hugging Face Open-source

§ Open-source community drives innovation in Generative AI § Important factors § Use case § Parameter size § Quantization § Processing power needed § Llama- & Mistral-based families show big potential for local use cases Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action Open-source LLMs thrive 26

Local RAG: Mistral-7B open-source LLM llama.cpp, ollama, LangChain, StreamLit Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action DEMO 27

Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action Exciting Times… 28

§ LLMs & LMMs enable new scenarios & use cases to incorporate human language into software solutions § Fast moving and changing field § Every week something “big” happens in LLM space § Frameworks & ecosystem are evolving together with LLMs § Closed vs open LLMs § Competition drives invention & advancement § SLMs: specialized, fine-tuned for domains § SISO (sh*t in, sh*t out) § Quality of results heavily depends on your data & input Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action Current state 29

Multimodale Large Language Models (LMMs) als Kern moderner Business-Anwendungen – in Action 2024: The year of SLMs & CPU inference 30

Thank you! Christian Weyer https://thinktecture.com/christian-weyer 31