Private AI
What Is Private Enterprise AI?
Private enterprise AI is an approach to using artificial intelligence in which an organization keeps control of the things that make AI risky: the data that goes into it, the identities allowed to use it, the systems it ...
Private AI vs Public AI
The question is usually posed as a choice between two products. It is really a choice about which risks an organization would rather carry, and it does not have one answer that survives across every kind of content a bus...
On-Premises AI vs Cloud AI
Once an organization has decided it wants a controlled AI environment, the next question is where it should run. The available answers are not two, and the framing as on premises against cloud hides the ones most organiz...
How to Build a Private AI Environment
Most private AI projects fail in the same way. They begin with a model, acquire infrastructure, and arrive at the questions about data and identity late, when the answers are expensive. The order below is close to the re...
What Is Enterprise RAG?
Retrieval augmented generation is the technique behind almost every useful enterprise AI assistant. It is also the part organizations understand least well, because the name describes the mechanism rather than the point....
Secure RAG Architecture
A retrieval system is a search engine that answers in sentences, and that changes its security properties in one specific way: search returns links a user can be denied, while generation returns prose that has already be...
What Is a Private LLM?
Private LLM is a phrase used to mean at least five different arrangements, and they do not offer the same guarantees. Because it is a marketing term rather than a technical one, the only reliable way to understand a clai...
Open-Source vs Proprietary LLMs
The question is usually asked as open source against proprietary, and the first useful answer is that most models described as open source are not open source. They are open weights, which is a different and considerably...
Vector Databases and Enterprise AI
A vector database stores the numerical representations that make meaning based search possible, and answers the question of which stored items are nearest to a query. That is genuinely all it does. The engineering intere...
Secure Generative AI for Business
Generative AI arrives in an organization whether or not anyone approves it. By the time the question reaches a security team, the useful version of it is rarely whether to allow it, but how to make the allowed path bette...