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Use AI productively while protecting privacy, checking outputs, and preserving human accountability.
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AI at Work
Evaluate workplace use cases, run safe pilots, measure value, and communicate changes responsibly.
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Analyze AI systems through rights, equity, governance, safety, and public-interest outcomes.
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Understand language models, retrieval, agents, evaluation, cost, and deployment safeguards through practical system design.
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Cohere Command Models
Command is Cohere's family of large language models built specifically for enterprise use, with a strong focus on retrieval-augmented generation, tool use…
CompaniesLambda Labs
Lambda is a GPU cloud provider purpose-built for AI, renting NVIDIA hardware by the hour and selling pre-configured deep-learning workstations and servers.
CompaniesFireworks AI
Fireworks AI is a fast, cost-efficient inference platform that serves open-source and custom generative models through a simple API.
CompaniesModal Labs
Modal is a serverless cloud platform that lets developers run Python code, including GPU workloads, in the cloud by adding a decorator to a function.
CompaniesLlama Model Family
Llama is Meta's family of open-weight large language models that anyone can download, run, and fine-tune for free.
CompaniesClaude Model Family
Claude is Anthropic's family of large language models, built with a strong emphasis on safety, helpfulness, and honesty.
CompaniesGoogle Imagen
Google Imagen is Google DeepMind's family of text-to-image diffusion models that turn written prompts into photorealistic pictures.
CompaniesGoogle Veo
Google Veo is Google DeepMind's text-to-video generation model that creates high-resolution, cinematic video clips from text or image prompts.
CompaniesGroq
Groq is a hardware company that builds the LPU (Language Processing Unit), a custom chip designed to run AI language models at extremely high speed.
CompaniesEleutherAI
EleutherAI is a grassroots nonprofit research collective that pioneered open-source large language models when frontier AI was locked behind corporate walls.
CompaniesNous Research
Nous Research is a community-driven AI lab known for fine-tuning popular open models into highly capable, less-restricted assistants and for pushing…
CompaniesWeights & Biases
Weights & Biases is a developer platform for tracking, visualizing, and reproducing machine learning experiments.
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