Quickstart Guide

#Create an Account

The fastest way to get building AI applications using 🔮 Instill Core is with ☁️ Instill Cloud. You'll need to create an account if you haven't already. If you already have an account, simply log in to begin your journey with ☁️ Instill Cloud.

When signing up, you have three options:

• Sign in with your Google account
• Sign in with your GitHub account
• Use your email address and password

🔮 Instill Core or ☁️ Instill Cloud empowers you to build pipelines tailored for processing unstructured data using the Versatile Data Pipeline (💧 Instill VDP). The central concept in 💧 Instill VDP is the Pipeline, which automates a sequence of components to process unstructured data.

#Run Your First AI Workflow

Once you login you will automatically be taken to the Explore page , where you can explore public pipelines and models developed by the community and the Instill AI team.

1. Search for and select the quickstart pipeline.
2. Type in a prompt in the Sticker Prompt field.
3. Click the Run button.

Congratulations 🎉 you have successfully run your first 💧 Instill VDP pipeline!

This pipeline generates stickers based on the text prompt you provide. The 📺 Instill Console window on the left side of the screen displays all of the components within this pipeline, and how they are connected. You can inspect them by using the + icons to expand them.

From this you can see how the pipeline takes an initial text prompt from the user, enhances the prompt to be more descriptive using the Llama3-8b-Instruct model, and then generates a sticker using Stable-Diffusion-XL. It utilises ⚗️ Instill Model AI components to connect to a growing list of pretrained models that are served and ready for requests on ☁️ Instill Cloud.

#Customize Your AI Workflow

You may have noticed that you are unable to edit this pipeline. To customise a public pipeline to suit your own requirements, you simply need to clone it.

#Step 1. Clone Your Pipeline

1. Select the Clone button.
2. Specify a name for the pipeline and provide a short description.
3. Ensure the pipeline has the desired visibility.
4. Click the Clone button.

#Step 2. Edit with 📺 Instill Console

Now you will be able to select Edit (next to the Clone button) to begin customising. This will bring up the 📺 Instill Console no-code pipeline builder.

To test out your cloned pipeline, simply enter a Sticker Prompt and hit Run.

Running in the Console

From here you can edit, add and remove components, as well as change how they connect together!

For instance, to edit one of the AI components in this 💧 Instill VDP pipeline you could:

• Select a different model using the Model Name dropdown.
• Optimise the Prompt for your use case.
• Select More to customise task-specific inference variables that control the behaviour of the model (e.g. system message or temperature).

#Empower Your AI Journey with 🔮 Instill Core

Beyond the fundamental concepts covered in this Quickstart guide, get the most out of 🔮 Instill Core and elevate your AI applications by exploring these additional features that 🔮 Instill Core and ☁️ Instill Cloud have to offer:

• Pipeline Creation: Dive into building and customising your very own 💧 Instill VDP pipeline from the ground up with guidance from our Create Pipeline page.
• API Integration: Discover how to activate pipelines through API calls. Details are in the Run Pipeline page.
• Local Deployment: Want to self-host 🔮 Instill Core and deploy locally? Our deployment guide walks you through this process.
• Model Library: Access a variety of pre-trained ML models for different AI tasks on ☁️ Instill Cloud through the Models section on the console.
• Custom Models: Ready to deploy your own models? Learn everything you need in our model serving tutorial.
• Tutorials: Delve deeper into the capabilities and applications of 🔮 Instill Core and ☁️ Instill Cloud with our growing collection of Tutorials.