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torrmal

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About torrmal

I'm the Co-founder & CEO of MindsDB, and also recent visiting scholar at UC Berkeley researching machine learning automation and explainability. Before founding MindsDB, I worked for a number of data-intensive start-ups, most recently working with Aneesh Chopra (the first CTO in the US government) building ML data systems for healthcare projects. I have degrees in electrical engineering & computer science from the Australian National University.

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    Claudio? Why we need and open source Claude

    Imagine if operating systems, browsers, or databases had evolved with only closed systems. We wouldn’t have the internet we know today. AI needs world-class open alternatives to gr…

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    Open-source, very smart and It will make you think that Glean, ThoughtSpot, and practically any tool you've ever used to "answer questions from data to get your job done" look like…

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    we have been trying to make it so that people dont have to reinvent the wheel, over and over and over again, and have a very straight forward all batteries included that can scale …

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    Hello to Unstructured Analytics

    Traditional analytics “loved” neat rows and columns (oh, how they adored orderly databases!), so anything messy—emails, PDFs, customer feedback, doctor notes, ... your grumpy aunt'…

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    1000% we think it can be very valuable, and also it can add a layer of security, have you been able to try it?

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    Please share what you think about this! Your feedback means the world to us

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    At Mindsdb we have been using it, and I truly believe it’s the future of open source code management.

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    Building Llamas That Think?

    Hey HN, So, casually trying to make LLaMA achieve consciousness (as one does on a Tuesday), when I stumbled upon something hilarious. Turns out, you can make these language models …

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    Hey HN, So, casually trying to make LLaMA achieve consciousness (as one does on a Tuesday), when I stumbled upon something hilarious. Turns out, you can make these language models …

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    great question, i think rather than smaller inputs, you should be able to have as much context as needed in. Its more aboue smaller outputs, that are well typed and allow you to co…

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    Agents suck – but it can be better

    Watching Agents try to complete tasks is like watching a drunk person trying to solve a Rubik's cube. Entertaining? Yes. Reliable? Not always! However. Instead of asking an LLM to …

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    Tap into 17 LLMs with a Single API – Free with Unlimited Tokens

    Now you can tap into 17 LLMs with a Single API using MindsDB Inference Endpoints - 3 new models added this week! You can check it out at http://mdb.ai - it's free with unlimited to…

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    Use Llama 3 models for free via OpenAI-compatible API

    Hey developers! We at MindsDB are really thrilled with the newly launched Llama 3 models! So we decided to make them available for everyone for free to try via MindsDB Inference En…

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    LLMs: What if we did unlimited tokens instead?

    Partnering with the best LLM providers in the world (because we love them all), and we see two gaps: - The token based pricing model - There is no agreed and universal common API (…

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    Comment #38613866

    Hey — We built a text-to-SQL skill, connected it to an agent, and in the end, you can publish a Chatbot to Slack. This is useful because it lets non-technical people ask questions …

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    Feedback Wanted: How to Build a Text-to-SQL Agent

    Preview..... Please tell us what you think about this new open-source capability below. You can create a Text-to-SQL skill, connect it to an agent, and publish a chatbot to Slack. …