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We hope this update finds you well. We're excited to share the newest developments and improvements from our products. This includes the rollout of multi-region support for Instill Cloud, the availability of Llama3-8B-Instruct—the most powerful openly available LLM to date on Instill Cloud, secret management for pipeline connector configuration, and our exciting collaboration with InfuseAI, supported by Innovate UK.

Let’s dive in!

Instill Cloud: Multi-Region Expansion 🌐

Instill Cloud platform has now extended its reach across multiple regions!

Starting from Europe, we're thrilled to announce our expansion into Asia and the United States, ensuring enhanced accessibility and performance for users across diverse geographical locations. This marks a significant milestone in Instill Cloud's global expansion journey, reinforcing our commitment to delivering seamless cloud solutions worldwide.

Llama3-8B-Instruct Model on Instill Cloud 🦙

On April 18th, Meta unveiled the Llama 3 series, its most advanced openly available LLM to date. For more information, visit here. Now, you can access the Llama3-8B-Instruct model on Instill Cloud!

Here are the steps to use it:

• Log in to Instill Cloud.

• Use our provided pipeline to compare the capabilities of Llama 3 and Llama 2 side by side.

Alternatively, you can directly call the model. See the API request below:

Remember to replace <INSTILL CLOUD API TOKEN> in the API request with your own Instill Cloud API Token.

Secret Management for Connector Configuration

We've made some big improvements to how you set up your pipeline connectors, especially when it comes to managing sensitive information like API keys. Now, you can create encrypted secrets for added security and reusability. These secrets are accessible when specifically referenced in the connector setup.

Follow our step-by-step guide to set up the OpenAI connector using your API key.

🔜 Instill Credit Coming Soon

In addition to the above Bring Your Own API Key (BYOK) feature, get ready for Instill Credit, coming soon to Instill Cloud! Enjoy FREE Instill Credits, granting access to AI models like OpenAI's GPT-4 without the hassle of registering your own 3rd-party vendor account. Stay tuned for updates!

Innovate UK Supports Our Vision for Full-Stack Generative AI Infrastructure

We at Instill AI, along with Taiwan's InfuseAI, are excited to announce a significant new collaboration. Under the banner Optimising Industry Dynamics: A Performance-Persistent AI System Adaptable to Rapid Data and Model Changes, this project is jointly funded by Innovate UK and the A+ Industrial Innovative R&D Program in Taiwan, with a shared funding pool of up to £2 million.

🔎 Why This Matters

This joint initiative is set to revolutionize the AI and data industries by addressing critical challenges such as enhancing non-English LLM applications, breaking through the context window limits, and tackling the persistent issue of domain or concept drift. Our goal is to extend the capabilities of AI systems, making them more dynamic and effective across various languages and cultural contexts.

👉 Read our announcement on our blog article.

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Hello!

We hope this update finds you well, bringing you the latest enhancements to our projects, including the powerful LLaVA model, versatile jq task integration, and the efficient iterator component for advanced data processing solutions.

Let’s dive in!

GitHub Project Restructure

The vdp repository has been renamed to instill-core, marking it as the primary codebase for our Instill Core project.

New Model

LLaVA (acronym of Large Language and Visual Assistant) is a promising open-source generative AI model that replicates some of the capabilities of OpenAI GPT-4 in conversing with images. The most compelling features of LLaVA are its ability to improve upon other open-source solutions while using a simpler model architecture and orders of magnitude less training data. These characteristics make LLaVA not only faster and cheaper to train, but also more suitable for inference on consumer hardware.

For more details, check out our tutorial on harnessing the power of  LLaVA-v1.6-13B with Instill Model.

New Component Task

jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor that allows you to slice, filter, map, and transform structured data with a simple, expressive syntax. It reads JSON input and filters it using specific expressions, enabling efficient data manipulation and retrieval.

The jq task can be utilized within the JSON operator in VDP. Just add a JSON operator into your pipeline and select TASK_JQ to seamlessly integrate jq tool into your workflow.

For more details about integrating jq into your workflow, check out our documentation.

New Component

iterator ( [ 🌽 , 🐮 , 🐓 ] , cook ) =>  [ 🍿 , 🥩 , 🍗 ]

The iterator processes each data element individually within an array or list. This mechanism is essential for normalizing, filtering, or enriching data on an item-by-item basis, facilitating effective data processing.

For example, in webpage summarization tasks, given the substantial content of a webpage, the iterator is utilized to methodically process the content, segmented by tokens, enabling the efficient generation of concise summaries for each section.

More models and components are on the horizon!

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Happy New Year!
As we welcome 2024, we'd like to start by sharing some good news from the past two months.

VDP GitHub Milestone ⭐️

Celebrating 1k stars on our VDP GitHub Project! A heartfelt thank you to our community for your unwavering support.

But we are never satisfied! We are aiming for 10K!

Beta Launch 🚀

We're thrilled to announce that Versatile Data Pipeline (VDP) is now in Beta. We're committed to avoiding any breaking changes and ensuring backward compatibility. This means smoother, more reliable integrations for you!

Instill Hub 🤝

Are you ready to create, share, and explore innovative AI workflows? 🚀

Instill Hub is The home for AI builders!

It stands at the forefront of Instill VDP, offering an extensive library of pre-built components and templates to power your projects with the most advanced AI infrastructure available. You can easily embrace the future of AI with Instill Hub and become part of a vibrant community dedicated to pushing the boundaries of technology.

Product Update 🤩

Over the past months, we've been hard at work bringing plenty of fantastic new features and improvements to the table. Let's dive right into what's fresh and buzzing:

New Connectors

• Website Connector: Effortlessly scrape websites to enrich your AI projects

• Redis Connector: Keep track of your chat histories with the new LLM support

• Google Search Connector: Brings text and HTML data from Google Search results directly into your pipeline

• OpenAI Connector:

  • GPT-4 Turbo: OpenAI’s latest generation model

  • GPT-4V: Analyze image inputs provided by the user

  • TTS: Transform texts into lifelike speech.

  • DALL·E 3: Transform texts into high-quality images

New Operators

• Image Operator: Simplify overlay analysis on images.

• Text Operator: Convert various document formats to plain text efficiently.

• Base64 Operator: Quickly encode and decode Base64 strings.

New AI Models on Instill Model

• Llama 2-7b

• MPT-7b

• Mistral-7b

• Zephyr-7b

• Stable Diffusion XL

• ControlNet Canny

These models are put into our ecosystem for a unified and seamless AI experience.

Event Highlights 🎉

Neo Star Awards at Meet Taipei

📆  2023/11/30-2023/12/1

📍  Taipei, Taiwan

Instill AI was recognized as one of the top 30 startups at the Neo Star Awards 2023. This award emphasizes our innovative impact on the AI industry. The award was presented at the Neo Star Demo Show during Meet Taipei's 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Asia's largest startup festival, sharing its innovative solutions with 400+ international startups. We have a booth in the exhibition for attendees to explore our technology.

Instill AI also received the Special Award from Deloitte and the Third Place Award at Meet Taipei Neo Star. This recognition is a testament to our dedication to innovation and excellence. We are grateful for this acknowledgement, which motivates our mission to revolutionize AI.

Check out the English press of the Neo Star Demo Show.

Plug and Play Accelerator Program

📆  2023/11/28

📍  Alberta, Canada

Instill AI was selected to participate in the prestigious Plug and Play Sector Agnostic Program. At the renowned Plug and Play Expo in Alberta, Canada, we had the privilege of being featured on the Enterprise AI Startup Panel, where we demonstrated our cutting-edge product.

Protecting Creativity in the Age of AI

📆  2023/12/14

📍  London, UK

Instill AI co-hosted an exclusive event "Protecting Creativity in the Age of AI" with Numbers Protocol and King's College London. This unique event brought together innovative minds to discuss the impact of AI on creativity and intellectual property. Our CEO, Ping-Lin, was one of the panelists in the "Tech Panel - Unveiling AI’s Potential: Transformative Technologies in the Creative Sector". It was an honour to share the stage with esteemed panelists and learn together in the world of AI.

Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 🎉

As we bid farewell to 2023, a year of growth and innovation, we're grateful to all of you who journeyed with us. Your support, contributions, and enthusiasm have been the fuel for our innovation and success.

As we've now stepped into 2024, we're filled with excitement for the opportunities that are already unfolding. We're eager to continue shaping the future, breaking new ground, and transforming the world with AI.

We hope you've had a joyful start to the New Year! Here's to making more breakthroughs together in 2024!

Stay tuned for more exciting updates and developments from Instill AI.

As always, happy building! 🎉

Best,

Shih-Chun Huang

Developer Advocate @ Instill AI

Hey ,

We're thrilled to reconnect with you after a brief hiatus, and we've got a lot to share. Starting now, you can expect our monthly newsletter to keep you informed, engaged, and inspired. So, let's dive into the latest updates and exciting developments!

Product Updates

Over the past few months, we've been hard at work bringing some fantastic new features and improvements to the table. Let's dive right into what's fresh and buzzing:

🙌🏻 Build, test, release and share pipelines

• 🔨 Build pipelines to supercharge versatile AI features in your applications

• 🧪 Test pipelines visually with a single click to see what's happening at each step

• 🔄 Release pipelines with semantic versioning

• 🔗 Foster collaboration by effortlessly sharing and cloning pipelines

📝 Build pipelines faster using ready-to-use templates

We're absolutely thrilled to introduce you to these valuable use cases. Now, you don't have to start from scratch - simply pick from these templates to tackle real-world challenges effortlessly.

🔆 Instill Python and TypeScript SDKs

Integrate seamlessly

We couldn't be more excited to present the Instill Python SDK and Typescript SDK. These nifty frameworks make it a breeze to integrate the power of VDP pipelines and Instill Model into your Python or Typescript applications.

To kickstart your journey with these SDKs, just follow these links:

• Python SDK

• Typescript SDK

🔆 Instill CLI

Bringing the power of Instill AI to your command line

We are thrilled to announce Instill CLI, which is your all-in-one solution for harnessing the power of Instill AI right from your command line!

Eager to dive into the CLI world and turbocharge your Instill AI experience? Get started by visiting our GitHub Repo: Instill CLI GitHub Repo.

🔆 Pinecone, BigQuery, Google Cloud Storage Connectors
Exciting Data Connectors to Enhance Your Apps

Discover a world of possibilities with our innovative new AI connectors, designed to elevate your applications to the next level.

• Pinecone Connector: Unleash the Power of Embeddings

• BigQuery Connector: Seamlessly Access Large Volumes of Data

• Google Cloud Storage Connector: Tap into Vast Online Resources

Stay in the loop with the freshest updates! Give self-hosted Instill Core or Instill Cloud a spin. Exciting news: Instill Cloud is now up for grabs for FREE as a fully managed public cloud service during our Open Alpha phase. So, go ahead, dive in and happy building! 🛠️💪

Instill AI x Hacktoberfest

We're excited to announce our participation in Hacktoberfest! September has been a whirlwind as we prepare for this incredible journey. Hacktoberfest, a month-long event every October, promises exciting opportunities for you.

Event Highlights

• Date: October 1, 2023 - October 31, 2023

• Contribute with your coding expertise, share innovative pipelines, and create video/blog tutorials.

Join the Instill AI x Hacktoberfest event, showcase your skills, collaborate, and earn fantastic rewards.

Get started by visiting

• Celebrate Hacktoberfest 2023 with Instill AI for event details

• GitHub repository to find issues to contribute to

Exciting Rewards Await

• Share/Repost our Hacktoberfest information on social media (Take X for example) or by giving us a star on GitHub for exclusive Instill Digital Stickers.

• The top 30% of contributors receive an extraordinary Instill AI swag package with physical stickers and your choice of an Instill Bottle or Mug.

Help us spread the word and create a vibrant community of developers. Let's celebrate technology, collaboration, and open-source contributions together!

Partnership/Events

9/14 - AI Meets Blockchain:

Shaping the Future of Digital Transparency

We are excited to announce a groundbreaking partnership with Numbers Co. 主張數據, a startup focused on data provenance infrastructure. This collaboration combines the strength of Numbers Protocol's blockchain technology with the dynamic nature of artificial intelligence, creating unique synergies that enhance user experiences and benefit the broader community.

On September 14th, Numbers Co. 主張數據 and Instill AI co-hosted a live demo session on YouTube. We explored the fascinating fusion of AI and blockchain, discussed the importance of blockchain in an AI-driven world, showcased live demos, and examined the synergies between AI and blockchain technologies.

During the live demo, you can discover how to use Instill Cloud to guide you through the process of converting AI-generated data into Web3 assets. This will provide valuable insights into building data pipelines that seamlessly integrate AI with provenance capabilities.

You can catch the replay of this groundbreaking event and dive deep into the cutting-edge application of these revolutionary technologies.

Additionally, you can explore tutorials here: From Generative AI to Blockchain: Building an AIGC x Web3 Pipeline with Instill VDP | Tutorial.

9/27 - ILLA x Instill AI Hacktoberfest

Opening/Announcement Event

We are grateful to have been invited by ILLA Cloud to participate as one of the speakers at their Hacktoberfest opening on September 27th. During the event, we discussed our partnership with ILLA Cloud for Hacktoberfest and shared insights into Instill AI's open-source project. We also talked about how to celebrate Hacktoberfest with Instill AI.

If you missed the event, you could watch the replay to explore exciting topics about Instill AI and be a part of the Hacktoberfest experience.

So, grab your popcorn, sit back, relax, and enjoy the session from the comfort of your own screen. We can't wait for you to join us virtually!

We hope you enjoyed reading our October newsletter! Stay tuned for more exciting updates and developments from Instill AI. As always, happy building, and see you next month! 🚀🔥

Best,

Shih-Chun Huang

Developer Advocate @ Instill AI

Hey ,

I’m Xiaofei, co-founder of Instill AI. Knowing that you have expressed interest of Versatile Data Pipeline (VDP), I am reaching out to you to share our exciting news.

🎯 Introducing Instill Cloud in Open Alpha

We're thrilled to announce the long-waited release of Instill Cloud, a fully-managed cloud service for VDP, now available in Open Alpha.

Our goal in developing VDP is to make AI accessible to everyone. With a single line, you can launch VDP on local machines without the need to build from scratch to harness AI to process your unstructured data. However, we wanted to go even further. We understand that deploying, scaling, and managing infrastructure for unstructured data pipelines can be daunting, especially for those who are not tech-savvy or have limited resources. These challenges are real and not to be taken lightly.

What's great is that now you have the option to use Instill Cloud and experience the full power of VDP without any hassle. It is currently in Open Alpha testing phase - with all features FREE:

• Support SYNC and ASYNC unstructured data pipelines for real-time and non-real-time AI-first applications respectively

• Access to pre-trained ML models, such as YOLOv7, Mask R-CNN, Stable Diffusion and GPT

• Unlimited pre-built data connectors

• Unlimited API request

• No credit card needed

  
  

👉 We can't wait for you to give it a try. Please join our Discord community to provide feedback and receive future product updates. We love any inputs as we strive to make Instill Cloud the best it can be 🙌!

🎯 What's next?

We are working on improving the user experience of VDP and Instill Cloud at a rapid pace. Here are some important features on the horizon:

• Supporting flexible and complex pipelines through a DAG design

• Decoupling the model deployment feature from VDP and introducing a standalone ModelOps platform called Instill Model to provide a more stable model import and inference experience

• Introducing the Model Connector to connect AI models from different sources, whether they are third-party model providers or in-house model serving platforms. This will unlock numerous opportunities for VDP to integrate with popular model providers like OpenAI, Stability AI, Hugging Face, and, of course, Instill Model

• Expanding support for more data connectors, including popular vector dbs

For more details, please check out our roadmap.

🚀 Try Instill Cloud Free 🚀

Best,

Xiaofei Du

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