Small language models can be a game changer, but they have often to be trained to a very specific task!
That’s why we’re thrilled to host the How to train SLMs workshop at our Xebia office in Amsterdam!
We’ll have a hands-on training complete with a deployment walk-through!
https://lu.ma/5qrzjz3j?locale=en-GB
Anand Sahay Mayank Verma Preetpal Singh Adam Kawa Klaudia Wachnio (Zdunczyk)
What’s the impact of DeepSeek AI V3 and R1 on the #GenAI market and on coding in particular?
Yesterday, our CEO Anand Sahay asked for my perspective, so I set aside two hours in my agenda to find out. Little did I know back then that writing this post would have taken longer than coding a whole web application leveraging DeepSeek.
To form a perspective, I didn’t want to read what everyone was writing, but I set out to replicate with DeepSeek the application that I coded in ChatGPT in the summer of 2023 to send a reminder to our customers by SMS (see my blog post https://xebia.com/blog/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-llms/)
One of the application’s goals back then was to be portable so that every colleague, even salespeople, could use it.
However, I didn’t want Deepseek to rewrite it in Go: I wanted to learn something new, so I opted for an even easier app: a web page, all HTML and Javascript!
Lo and behold, after 15 minutes, I had a working web app (the only thing I had to update was the “Sender” field, as I didn’t specify it in the prompt!), as you can see in the screenshot.
It works with your MessageBird API key, it asks who sends the message, and what text you want to send.
Then, you need to upload a CVS file with names and phone numbers and it will send custom messages to your customers (in this case, the message was “Hi Giovanni, I’m testing deepseek-v3”).
And the most amazing thing: thanks to DeepSeek’s breakthrough technology, it was cheap, and you can run it on-premise or in the cloud (I opted for Fireworks.ai so that I could compare it with other models such as Mistral, Llama, and more).:
And, cherry on top, I could alternate using DeepSeek V3 and DeepSeek R1 (their reasoning model, which performs on par with the latest and greatest OpenAI model) to understand the reasons for certain choices so that I could correct it when necessary! Transparency is a big plus of DeepSeek when compared with the competition!
For the curious, here’s the prompt I used for the initial coding exercise: “Using the messagebird API, create an HTML page that allows me to input my messagebird API key, a CSV with names and phone numbers, and a text box in which I can enter the body of the SMS message that has to be sent via message bird to the phone numbers contained in the CSV file”
This is a great recognition of the work we started 15 years ago with Rob Dielemans and the rest of the Xebia team.
And it’s not just Everest Group that recognizes our achievements: our beloved customers and our partners love working with us—and we do too!
If you’re not leveraging #AI right now, you’re already behind. But here’s the twist—embracing AI without a clear strategy is just as dangerous. Missteps in AI integration lead to wasted resources, fractured teams, and even reputational damage. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
That’s why it’s my pleasure to join Claire Grosjean from Technology Credit Union (Tech CU) in an upcoming webinar to discuss
- How AI is reshaping industries - Common misconceptions about AI adoption - Where AI delivers the most impact—and where mistakes are often made - The challenges of cultural resistance and the future of jobs as AI advances
You will find the link in the comment to join us on March 4th at 1 PM ET.
Abhishek Bhuwania Hemant Ramnani Matthew S. Gosselin Kimberly Martin Klaudia Wachnio (Zdunczyk) Rob Dielemans Anand Sahay
I was not expecting X to grow their EBITDA from 13% to almost 50% under Elon, but here we are
Research shows that while 90% of executives view data as an opportunity 📈, 70% report minimal or no gains 📉.
The reason is that they miss a data strategy, meaning they basically have no clue where they’re heading. 🔙
So, where should they start?
My colleague Steven Nooijen shares 7 POWERFUL 🤜🏼🤛🏼 questions to get you started so you can play the game 🎮 WITHOUT losing money! 💰💰💰
Read the post on our blog!
It was a pleasure to be a guest—along with Nuno Faustino and Vishal Nigam—at the Bind2Tech podcast hosted by Waheed Najimi.
In it, we discussed #LLM’s as co-workers, the environmental impact of LLMs, and, in general, how #AI is reshaping team collaboration.
Listen to it on Spotify! Link in the comment
With the recent turmoil around data, privacy, and storing GDPR-protected data in US-owned data centers, programmatically protecting sensitive data is A Thing™️.
If you’re into #dbt and #databricks, my colleagues Marta Radziszewska and Tim Steinkühler have got your back with the latest post on the Xebia blog!
Read it below 👇🏼
https://xebia.com/blog/automate-sensitive-data-protection-with-metadata-driven-masking/
With the release of DeepSeek R1, many companies are rightfully thinking of replacing whatever #LLM they’re using with it.
But in this blog post I argue that, if your testing strategy is not well executed, you might be in for a surprise!
Read it on the Xebia website 👇🏼
Thank you Cosmando Byarugaba for hosting Bas Heemskerk and myself at the KLM office to get inspired about all things #genai, and how to build a culture of continuous learning to become a data-driven enterprise!
And, delight for my kids, I came home with a 787 for them!
