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Podcast: Deep Dive into Vision Language Models (VLMs)
Over Christmas, Nathan Labenz and our Data Science Director Will Hardman spent 4 hours doing an extended deep dive into Vision Language Models (VLMs) on Nathan’s awesome podcast, The Cognitive Revolution. The podcast can be found on The Cognitive Revolution website, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Developing an AI Strategy: Analysis & Synthesis
Analysis & Synthesis is the third (and final) stage of Veratai’s methodology for developing AI strategies.
How can you take a list of ideas and turn them into a winning strategy. We explain the alchemy of the process in this blog.

Alignment post-training for LLMs: lessons learned making it work
Alignment post-training is the art of getting an AI model to complete tasks in a way that meets the criteria of its users.
In this blog, I document what I learned getting this process to work for a production-grade LLM.

Developing an AI Strategy: Effective Research
At its heart, a good AI strategy needs to answer four questions:
What does the journey look like? What should it do and what should it not do?
How should the organisation change to mitigate future risks and seize future opportunities?
What is the gap between the organisation’s capabilities today and the capabilities it will require to do this?
What impact will AI likely have upon the organisation, its stakeholders and its market ecosystem in the short, medium and long term?

The first step toward an AI strategy: good stakeholder interviews
Good stakeholder interviews are the first - and perhaps the most critical - step in developing an Enterprise AI Strategy. Learn how to do them succesfully in this blog post.