The AI Files
A one stop shop for AI news, events, perspectives, demos, strategy and everything about AI. Hosts Jaime Basilico and Shadab Hussain are both Director of Data and AI at Microsoft and brings their over 55 years of combined experience together to share their insights, analysis and predictions.
Episodes

Saturday Aug 03, 2024
Saturday Aug 03, 2024
In this episode, we will cover AI related news as well as announcements like Gemma 2, GitHub Models, Meta AI Studio and Graph RAG etc. We also covered an AI case study demonstrating real world gains and how AI is used for good.

Thursday Aug 01, 2024
Thursday Aug 01, 2024
In this episode, we are hosting Stephen Kaufman, AI Architect at Microsoft, to discuss LLMOps, an important discipline to manage the life cycle of LLMs in an organization. LLMs is like DevOps/MLOps but focused on GenAI applications and models.

Monday Jul 29, 2024
Monday Jul 29, 2024
In this episode, we have discussed LLAMA3.1, Mistral Large 2, Generative search, Search GPT, Prompt report etc as well as comparing between MaaS and hosting of open source models

Sunday Jul 21, 2024
Sunday Jul 21, 2024
In this episode, we will talk about and demo GPT-4o Mini as well as bunch of other news & launches around Multi-modal AI, regulations, and content credentials initiatives etc
NBC to use AI-generated version of Al Michaels' voice during Summer Olympics (nbcnews.com)
Microsoft and Apple back away from OpenAI board (artificialintelligence-news.com)
Woman uses artificial intelligence to speak after brain surgery damaged voice (nbcnews.com)
Biden-Harris Administration Announces Key AI Actions 180 Days Following President Biden’s Landmark Executive Order | The White House
https://time.com/6978195/ilya-sutskever-leaves-open-ai/
NYT v. OpenAI: The Times’s About-Face - Harvard Law Review
Watch the AI-produced film Toys"R"Us made using OpenAI's Sora – and get misty about the AI return of Geoffrey the Giraffe (msn.com)
OpenAI Has Talked to Broadcom About Developing New AI Chip — The Information
GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence | OpenAI
Finding GPT-4’s mistakes with GPT-4 | OpenAI
Gemini 1.5 Pro updates, 1.5 Flash debut and 2 new Gemma models (blog.google)

Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
AI Agents are the future, driving intelligent automation to transforming user experience and increasing efficiencies. In this episode, Simon Lacasse, AI Global Blackbelt at Microsoft discusses the AI Agents, their evolution, future, patterns, examples and how to get started.

Sunday Jun 30, 2024
Sunday Jun 30, 2024
Claude 3.5 Sonnet from Anthropic is amazing and breaks new grounds. Let's talk about it and also compare it against GPT4-o to get more clarity for a decision making. Apple Intelligence is a different take on portraying AI, less technically and more in human experience terms. Let's also cover a few other news related to AI that matter.
Check the show notes here:
https://time.com/6978195/ilya-sutskever-leaves-open-ai/
NYT v. OpenAI: The Times’s About-Face - Harvard Law ReviewAmazon hires founders away from AI startup Adept | TechCrunch
Introducing Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac - AppleApple Intelligence in 5 minutes (youtube.com)
Introducing Claude 3.5 Sonnet \ Anthropic
Anthropic New Claude 3.5 Sonnet – How it compares to ChatGPT's GPT-4o (youtube.com)

Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
Use of generative AI has nearly doubled in the last six months, with 75% of global knowledge workers utilizing it, according to the Microsoft WTI report. Scaling through adoption, skilling and responsible deployment is the next frontier in the enterprises.
Honored to have Matthew Fish join us and enlighten us on the 'State of AI' in the corporate world with his amazing breadth of insights. Matt is GM and leader of Data & AI in Northeast at Microsoft. Check out our next episode on this topic and subscribe, share & provide feedback!

Monday Jun 10, 2024
Monday Jun 10, 2024
This episode is part 2 of "Everything you wanted to know about LLMs" with Simon Lacasse who is a Global Blackbelt expert in AI at Microsoft. He covers several intriguing details of how Large Language Models (LLMs) work. Don't miss it and also check out part 1 in episode 6 if you have not done so already

Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
Packed episode covering several of announcements made at Microsoft Build as well as Khanmigo, Codestral release and a couple of interesting AI use cases.

Tuesday May 28, 2024
Tuesday May 28, 2024
Large Language Models or LLMs are the engines that powers generative AI and this wave of AI revolution. They work, interact and create differently than previous narrow models. GPT, Gemini, Titans, DBRX, Claude, Mistral, Llama etc are all LLMs. In this episode we dive deep into LLMs with simplified overview as well as all the major aspects of LLMs. We are pleased to have Simon Lacasse as our first guest ever. Simon is a brilliant AI expert at Microsoft and has tried to break it down for us in simple terms. Dont miss it!