by Brandon AllenPlain-English writing on applied artificial intelligence — on-prem LLMs, RAG, fine-tuning and what AI can genuinely do for a business.
Forget the headlines about robots taking over. For a real Plymouth business, artificial intelligence is quieter and far more useful — here's where it genuinely pays off, and where it doesn't.
Manchester is full of teams being sold AI transformation. Here's how to add real artificial-intelligence capability to a product or workflow without a black-box vendor or a six-figure gamble.
You don't have to send your data to OpenAI to use a capable language model. Here's what it takes to run LLMs on your own hardware — and why more businesses are choosing to.
A language model on its own makes things up. Wired to your documents with retrieval and citations, it doesn't have to. Here's how grounded AI actually works.
Two of the most-confused tools in applied AI. They solve different problems, and picking the wrong one wastes money. A plain-English guide to choosing.
You don't need a data centre to serve a capable model. Here are the levers that turn one GPU into a fast, cost-efficient inference server.
Renting intelligence by the token is easy to start and hard to stop. A look at when owning your AI infrastructure beats paying a meter forever.
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by Brandon Allen