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The AI assistant trained on your company’s data

November 17, 2023 00:28:32 27.39 MB Downloads: 0

Sana automates user enrollment, training reminders, and other manual/admin tasks associated with onboarding and learning. Sana AI, their AI assistant, is trained on a company’s data so employees can self-serve the knowledge they need.

On a related note, listen to our interview with Gašper Beguš, director of the Berkeley Speech and Computation Lab, about his research into how LLMs and humans acquire language.

You can also read about how Stack Overflow implemented semantic search.

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