What's New on W&B: What We Released at our In-Person Conference, Fully Connected
A lot of exciting announcements came out of Fully Connected 2023.
Created on June 6|Last edited on June 7
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Fully Connected 2023 brought together industry leaders and builders of large language models (LLMs) for a day focused on the transformative power of generative models and machine learning. Attendees heard from creators of exciting ML tools like LangChain and OpenAI and representatives from AWS, NVIDIA, Lightning, HuggingFace, Kaggle, and other companies making a positive impact through machine learning.
Weights & Biases also unveiled an exciting new product that will revolutionize model training and deployment. The event featured keynotes, product announcements, main sessions with speakers from prominent organizations, breakout sessions with innovative voices in ML, and an afterparty for networking. It was an opportunity for attendees to learn, connect, and explore the future of machine learning with Weights & Biases.
Here are just some of the exciting announcements!
Weave
Introducing Weave, a groundbreaking product announced at Fully Connected 2023!
Weave is a visual, interactive, and composable platform for building ML and data applications. Whether you prefer Python or a no-code approach, Weave provides a unified environment that allows you to create and share applications in minutes. With its notebook-first experience, you can seamlessly publish your projects to the web.
Weave empowers both tool creators and consumers by reducing the gap between tool creation and tool use, maximizing self-servability and collaboration. It offers an intuitive and performant ML workflow, allowing you to create end-to-end workflows for data exploration, experiments, evaluation, monitoring, and more.
Weave is composable and extensible, enabling you to build modular components and leverage the latest techniques from the ecosystem. It seamlessly integrates with popular libraries and repositories such as Keras, OpenCV, Pandas, and more. With Weave, you can build performant and scalable apps in production, capable of handling the largest models and serving thousands of parallel apps and users. Weave is the technology powering the entire Weights & Biases platform, including the W&B Production Monitoring app. Get started with Weave today and revolutionize your ML and data app development.
Learn more about Weave or try it for yourself!
- The announcement link
- The product page link
- The repo link
- The quickstart link
- Dave message Carey to see if anything else should be added.
Production Monitoring
W&B Production Monitoring is an observability platform designed specifically for ML and deep learning. It provides full visibility into your ML models and data applications, enabling continuous monitoring, evaluation, and improvement.
With interactive observability visualizations and customizable analytics, you can easily diagnose issues and improve performance.
W&B Production Monitoring is purposefully built for machine learning, offering support for rich media and in-depth clustering and diagnostics. It provides a visual and interactive experience within the right context, allowing you to drill down to the root causes of problems.
Automation features include custom alerts and triggers, enabling instant notifications and rapid incorporation of user feedback. You can customize the platform to your problem domain, leveraging use-case-specific best practices and sharing dashboards with your team.
W&B Production Monitoring serves as a unified system of record for development, staging, and production, facilitating easy comparison and collaborative monitoring. Gain full visibility and continuous improvement with W&B Production Monitoring. Sign up for Early Access today and be among the first to experience it.
Learn more about W&B Production Monitoring or try it for yourself!
- prodmon repo link
MLOps Maturity Assessment
We are excited to announce the MLOps Maturity Assessment that was introduced at Fully Connected 2023.
The assessment consists of Likert scale questions, where participants indicate their level of agreement with various statements. The questions cover key aspects such as sharing and collaboration, data pipelines, model training, evaluation and selection, model management and CI/CD, as well as model monitoring and governance.
All of this is used to determine the organization's maturity level in each area, ranging from Beginner to Expert. An overall maturity level is also provided, along with detailed breakdowns and actionable recommendations for advancing to the next level.
The MLOps Maturity Assessment offers a concise and structured way to assess an organization's MLOps capabilities. It serves as a valuable tool for identifying strengths and areas for improvement, enabling organizations to optimize their machine learning operations and drive greater efficiency and effectiveness.
We invite you to explore and use the MLOps Maturity Assessment to gain insights into your organization's MLOps maturity and take steps towards enhancing your capabilities in the field of machine learning operations.
Free LLMOps Course
W&B rolled out our newest free course, "Building LLM-Powered Apps," to help you learn to design, experiment with, and evaluate LLM-based applications.
Throughout the course, you will gain insights into LLM APIs, Langchain, and W&B Prompts. Key topics covered include understanding large language models, tokenization, sampling methods, chat completion, prompt engineering, application architecture, retrieval question answering, evaluation, safety considerations, and more. No machine learning skills are required, but intermediate Python experience is recommended.
Course Highlights:
- Introduction to LLM-Powered Applications
- Unpacking the Large Language Models APIs
- Building a Baseline LLM Application
- Enhancing and Optimizing LLM Applications
- Course Assessment: Final quiz and project assignment
- Course Conclusion and Next Steps
- Additional resources for further learning
Don't miss this opportunity to explore the world of LLM-powered applications. Sign up now at W&B Courses!
Other Announcements
Weights & Biases is always pushing the boundaries of what can be done in machine learning, and the community doing it. As such, there's no way we could cover all we've been working on and releasing over the past few months in a single post, but here are a few important highlights that you'd hate to miss so we're including them here.
Prompts
At our recent MeetUp in London, we introduced exciting new features from Weights & Biases (W&B) that empower you to uncover granular insights and debug your LLMs (Large Language Models) with ease.
With W&B Prompts, you can visually explore your LLM program, review past results, debug errors, and gain valuable insights about model behavior. Additionally, our LLM debugging tool with Trace Timeline and Trace Table, provides a comprehensive view of your program's components and activities for effective prompt engineering. We also offer Model Architecture, enabling practitioners to understand the setup of chain components within their iteration and analysis.
W&B Launch simplifies OpenAI evaluations, and W&B Tables enhances text data visualization and analysis.
Join the community of trusted LLM builders and engineers by leveraging W&B Prompts to build better LLMs and engineer smarter prompts.
Join Our Community!
We invite you to join the vibrant Weights & Biases Discord community, where you can connect with fellow MLOps enthusiasts, LLM practitioners, and industry experts. By joining our Discord server, you gain access to a supportive and collaborative environment where you can share your insights, ask questions, and engage in stimulating discussions about ML, LLMs and MLOps.
Here's what you can expect from our Discord community:
- Networking Opportunities: Connect with like-minded professionals and expand your network within the MLOps community. Share your experiences, exchange ideas, and learn from others.
- Expert Q&A Sessions: Gain exclusive access to live Q&A sessions with industry experts, where you can ask questions, seek advice, and receive valuable insights related to LLMs and MLOps.
- Community Showcases: Showcase your own projects, research, or innovations in the field of LLMs. Get feedback from the community, collaborate on exciting ventures, and stay up-to-date with the latest advancements.
- Event Announcements: Stay informed about upcoming events, webinars, workshops, and conferences related to MLOps and LLMs. Don't miss out on valuable learning and networking opportunities.
Join our Discord community today and be part of the ever-growing ecosystem of MLOps professionals and LLM enthusiasts. Together, let's explore the frontiers of machine learning and build the future of AI.
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