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AI Systems Journal

Technical Blog

Deep dives on LLM integration, agentic AI systems, microservices, and semantic search.

Jan 5, 2026

Where Do LLMs Learn From? Understanding Training Data Sources

Explore the four primary sources of LLM training data: web crawling, professional databases, synthetic data, and commercial licensing. Learn how Common Crawl data is filtered, cleaned, and packaged for training modern language models.

LLM TrainingData EngineeringAI InfrastructureMachine Learning
Dec 23, 2025

Mistral OCR 3: Enhance Document Accuracy and Efficiency

Mistral OCR 3 delivers breakthrough document extraction with state-of-the-art accuracy across invoices, forms, and complex tables. Learn how to leverage high-fidelity extraction, HTML table reconstruction, and industry-leading pricing ($1-2 per 1,000 pages) to transform your document AI pipelines.

Document AIOCRMistralAutomation
Dec 3, 2025

The Gartner AI Maturity Model: A Strategic Roadmap for Enterprise AI Adoption

Navigate your organization's AI journey from awareness to transformation. Explore Gartner's five-level maturity framework, seven assessment pillars, and practical strategies to build capabilities and accelerate AI-driven competitive advantage.

AI StrategyEnterprise AIAI GovernanceDigital Transformation
Nov 8, 2025

Why your next product should be a Chat-Web Application

Traditional dashboards are giving way to conversational workflows. Design Chat-Web Apps with LangGraph, LLMs, and automation stacks that let users ask, act, and automate in one place.

Chat UXAgentic AIAutomation
Nov 8, 2025

How to integrate LLMs into enterprise microservices

A pragmatic guide to adding GPT/Claude-powered capabilities to existing services with patterns for security, latency, and cost.

LLM IntegrationMicroservicesOpenAIClaude
Nov 8, 2025

Agentic AI systems architecture with LangGraph

Designing multi-agent workflows for orchestration, routing, and reliable tool use across enterprise contexts.

Agentic AILangGraphOrchestration
Nov 8, 2025

Vector databases for semantic search: patterns and pitfalls

Choosing Pinecone/FAISS/Chroma, chunking strategies, metadata filters, and evaluation for production search.

Vector DBSemantic SearchRAG