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📚 Series Building an SLM Powerhouse Part 1 of 2 View all posts in this series → Building My AI Workstation: Kicking Off the Project Over the past few years, I’ve watched the evolution of AI move from research labs into the everyday workflows of business, productivity, and creativity. Models that once required massive clusters are now accessible to individuals, and the frontier is shifting toward Specialized Language Models (SLMs) — models tuned for specific domains, tasks, and contexts. ...

📚 Series Building a Knowledge Management App with Oracle AI Database 26ai Part 2 of 4 View all posts in this series → After the 3-way LLM toggle went live, I turned my attention to embeddings - the invisible glue that powers search and RAG. Oracle OCI GenAI’s Cohere endpoint had been rock-solid in my testing: fast, reliable, and gave me 80 K token context. But every chunk still meant a network round-trip, and images were stuck behind OCR, so text-only embeddings meant photos, diagrams, and whiteboards were blind spots in my knowledge base. ...