Ever wondered how well Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) can perform with a classic like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? I recently used the RAG Assessment (ragas) Python module to automatically create a set of Q&A and then performance benchmark different configurations. Some of the results were surprising.

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Ever felt lost when a sommelier throws out words like "Rhubarb hangs out with cherry cider and the mellowest cinnamon" to describe a wine? ‍ Well - me too!

At the end of last week I was on a quest to bridge the gap between flowery descriptions and actual grape varieties! Inspired …

While text-to-image and text-to-text take most of the Generative AI headlines, the field of text-to-speech (TTS) continues to make steady progress. Recently, I explored the capabilities of Tortoise-TTS, an open-source framework for building high-fidelity TTS systems.

I've captured my research and experimentation in a Jupyter notebook. You can find it …

🔥 Meta's latest release, Llama 3, has delivered an impressive set of Large Language Model (LLM) benchmarks. While the 8B and 70B parameter models show impressive results against closed-source and open-source models such as Claude, Gemini and Mistral, it's interesting to compare improvements of …