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For Valentine's Day 💘 , the team at Arcee AI asked some popular AI models, including our own Arcee Virtuoso Small, Arcee Scribe and Arcee Coder, "What does love mean to you?" We set out to discover how models "love" differently. And by different we mean language, vision, small, large, general purpose, coding and different model bases. The results gave us almost a sense of personality for the different models. (Of course due to how each one was trained and on which datasets.) Here is a summary of what we discovered. Happy Valentine's Day 💖 Spend some time with Arcee AI models and get to know them. They have great "personalities". 😏 https://lnkd.in/gQANtvRw

🤔 Did you know that 65% of Fortune 500 companies are already testing or using AI agents to make their work easier and more efficient? Here are some examples of major companies that already have ambitious, successful AI agents in production: ✅ Johnson and Johnson - as part of their drug research and discovery process. ✅ Moody’s credit rating agency - to enhance its risk evaluation process. ✅ JP Morgan Chase - for email marketing automation. So–what does this mean for the rest of us? That if we don’t consider using agentic AI to boost productivity and streamline operations, we risk getting left behind our competitors. If you’re just getting started with AI agents or even just thinking about getting started, we’ve got you. We put together an Enterprise AI Agent Guide for business leaders, to give them all the essential information they need about Agentic AI: ☑️ A step-by-step checklist for evaluating how agentic AI could make the most impact in their organization.  ☑️ Explanation of the technical concepts and of how agentic AI is different from generative AI.  ☑️ Examples of how companies are already getting ROI from their AI agents. Check out the guide here, and let us know what you think: https://lnkd.in/ewiYRasa

Here at Arcee AI, we believe that AI should be both 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘶𝘭 AND 𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭. That's why we set new standards for security, transparency, and efficiency in every innovation we create, from our small language models (SLMs) to Orchestra and Conductor. Today, we’re excited to tell you about an exciting project we’ve been working on with AngelQ: together, we built the first open-source framework to train LLMs to give safe and age-appropriate responses for children. The framework is called ✨𝗞𝗶𝗱𝗥𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗟𝗠𝘀✨ and you can access it on our Github (link in the comments below). We’re honored to have worked on this with AngelQ, and huge congrats to CEO/Co-Founder Tim Estes and his team on today’s launch! https://lnkd.in/eHEdsBTi

What’s as exciting as launching a new flagship product AND a company rebrand on the same day? Well, for those of us who love diving into the deep technical side of AI, launching a new Docs site lands up there as a big moment. 🤓 Check out the new Arcee AI docs (https://lnkd.in/eGYfwcND). They feature Arcee Orchestra (of course), and also our Model Engine (where you can access, via API, the models that power Orchestra). Shout-out to the entire team for their help on this, with special thanks to Malikeh Ehghaghi for leading the charge, and also to Andrew Walko and Nora He for their many hours of work to get this live along with our new website. 💙

✔️ Your employees are wasting valuable time on routine processes when they could be delivering higher-value work. ✔️ You want AI that does more than answer your queries or draft copy. ✔️ You’ve been seeking AI agents that are 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 reliable. ✨ Good news: we have the solution for you, and you’re invited to a live demo coming up on February 26. 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗲𝗲 𝗢𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝗔𝗜 𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙚. It’s our turnkey, end-to-end platform that makes it easy to build, test, deploy, and scale generative AI agents and agentic networks through workflows. It’s a game-changer for work ranging from loan evaluation and customer support to financial analysis, code review, and market research automation. Our Chief Evangelist Julien SIMON and the Co-Lead of Arcee Labs Lucas Atkins will walk you through you some essential workflows. And our stellar team of Solutions Architects, Chris Smith and Andrew Walko, will be on hand to answer any of your questions. 🎵 Sign up today–we can't wait to get you started with Orchestra!

✨It’s a 𝗕𝗜𝗚 day for agentic AI–as we formally launch our new flagship product, Arcee Orchestra. Before we tell you about Orchestra, let us remind you a bit about ourselves, here at Arcee AI–to provide some background on 𝘸𝘩𝘺 we set out to build the leading agentic AI solution for enterprises. We’ve been the proud pioneers of small language models (SLMs), spearheading the development of these compact, specialized, efficient models over the past 18 months–this as the broader market started to realize that LLMs often fall short in real-life business environments. From the beginning of our journey as a company, we’ve been willing to challenge the big-name LLMs marketed by Big AI. 🎵 And now, with Arcee Orchestra, that challenge to Big AI includes our own take on agentic AI. Arcee Orchestra is a turnkey, end-to-end agentic platform that makes it easy for companies to build, test, deploy, and scale generative AI agents and agentic networks through workflows.   It delivers intelligent, reliable processes that adapt and scale with your needs. Most importantly, it’s powered by our state-of-the-art SLMs, which couple world-class performance with cost efficiency. 🎉 We couldn’t be more excited about Orchestra, and we know you’ll feel the same way. Drop us a note below if you’d like a live demo, and get the full details on how it works in our blog: https://lnkd.in/ecxM7hjH.

Will you be in the Bay Area on Wednesday evening (February 12)? We're hosting a cocktails night at Shack 15 and would love to see you there. We'll be discussing what has already been a roller coaster year in AI, and celebrating the industry shift–which we have helped to lead–towards small language models (SLMs) and bulding on top of open-source general intelligence. And yes, we'll also have great food and some fun swag 🥳 RSVP below to let us know if you can make it!! https://lu.ma/1wnn6010

After bringing you a series of incredible updates to MergeKit just a couple of days ago (details here: https://lnkd.in/esrE62Nn), we're ending our week with a look at the impact the open-source toolkit for model merging has had over the past year. Twelve months ago, here at Arcee AI, we acquired MergeKit, and also joined forces with its creator, Charles Goddard. To get a sense of just how successful MergeKit has been in bringing model merging to the world, look no further than the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard. The basic stats speak for themselves: ✔️ 𝟮𝟯𝗸 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 currently on the leaderboard used MergeKit during their creation. ✔️ Last month alone, 𝟮.𝟵 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 models that used MergeKit were downloaded. ✔️ And the total number of downloads of models that have used MergeKit is 𝟯𝟯.𝟲 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻. We're proud of our contribution and commitment to the open-source community with our team's work on MergeKit, and we're also offering a licensed version for enterprises. To learn more, write to us at licensing@arcee.ai.

After bringing you a series of incredible updates to MergeKit just a couple of days ago (details here: https://lnkd.in/esrE62Nn), we're ending our week with a look at the impact the open-source toolkit for model merging has had over the past year. Twelve months ago, here at Arcee AI, we acquired MergeKit, and also joined forces with its creator, Charles Goddard. To get a sense of just how successful MergeKit has been in bringing model merging to the world, look no further than the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard. The basic stats speak for themselves: ✔️ 𝟮𝟯𝗸 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 currently on the leaderboard used MergeKit during their creation. ✔️ Last month alone, 𝟮.𝟵 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 models that used MergeKit were downloaded. ✔️ And the total number of downloads of models that have used MergeKit is 𝟯𝟯.𝟲 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻. We're proud of our contribution and commitment to the open-source community with our team's work on MergeKit, and we're also offering a licensed version for enterprises. To learn more, write to us at licensing@arcee.ai.

We’re loving the new interest in efficient language models, sparked by the DeepSeek-R1 release. Check out this video by our Chief Evangelist Julien SIMON... He walks you through how to work with some incredible models, JUST WITH CPUs. Specifically, he shows how to run local inference on a MacBook–with llama.cpp and MLX–using Arcee AI’s latest open-source small language models (SLMs), which are distillations of Deepseek-V3. Shout-out, too, to our Research Engineer Prince Canuma who has pioneered so much MLX work.