CIO OPINION
As the shift from uniform LLMs to the diverse xLM marketplace occurs, CIOs have an opportunity to renew AI progression within their organisations.
The splintering language model market holds opportunity for forward-thinking CIOs
Victor Szczerba, Chief Commercial Officer, Pathway, says organisations that prepare for AI models prioritising specialised functions are those that will lead during the next phase of AI.
As technologies evolve, they reach a point where they have to diversify to improve – LLMs are no exception.
The use of GenAI as a day-to-day tool in business and personal lives has skyrocketed. Now, we are preparing for the next phase, where the market will splinter towards specialist models.
As CIOs and IT leaders build strategies for the future of AI, which is developing at breakneck speed, it is crucial to understand how this fragmentation will impact the market and redefine best practices for data management and AI integration.
Enter the xLM era
LLMs have been instrumental in advancing AI by demonstrating the value of applying it to a broad array of challenges, inspiring experimentation and proving the potential of generative systems. However, we are now reaching the point of LLM maturity where bigger is not necessarily better. Some of the biggest models have already consumed all the trainable data available and started to create their own synthetic data to continue their learning.
While these mammoth systems are an impressive feat, most use cases don’ t actually benefit from their full might. An aeroplane mechanic using a language
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