Building Your Own AI
For specialized tasks, you may achieve better performance by fine-tuning your own custom version of an open-source LLM rather than using a general-purpose model.
The Fine-Tuning Process
Fine-tuning involves taking a pre-trained open-source model (like Llama or Mistral) and continuing its training on a smaller, high-quality dataset specific to your domain. For example, you could fine-tune a model on all of your company's internal documents and customer support conversations. The resulting model would have expert-level knowledge of your specific business, products, and customers, and would be able to answer questions with much higher accuracy than a general model.