Speech & audioTechnical note
Teaching a model how to speak
A closer look at conversational speech fine-tuning with CSM and LoRA. The real question is what happens after the loss curve.
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AI & systemsPerspective
An AI landscape that won’t stand still
A published perspective on open models and the changing AI market.
The pace of AI development changes the engineering conversation as much as the market conversation.
A moment in a changing market
In an early-2025 public post, Hakan Kozaklı shared his article, “What’s Happening in the Market?”, discussing the AI landscape, the rise of open models, and Vyvo’s VAI OS strategy.
This entry links to that original perspective. It is not a current model ranking or market update.
From a model to a useful system
A useful engineering lens is to separate access to a model from the work required to make it serve a particular task. Adaptation, evaluation, and product integration are different layers of that work.
01 / Beyond the model releaseEditorial interpretation
- 01ModelCapabilities
- 02AdaptTask & domain
- 03EvaluateReal constraints
- 04IntegrateUseful behavior
| A model-level question | A system-level question |
|---|---|
| What can it generate? | Can it reliably finish this task? |
| How much context fits? | Which context is relevant and permitted? |
| How fast does it run? | How soon does the person get a useful result? |
Read the original perspective
The original post and its linked article preserve the context of that moment in the AI landscape.
Hakan Kozaklı / January 2025Open the original postSources & further reading
Language modelsTechnical note
From fluent to useful: a note on DPO
Fluent language is a starting point. Preference optimization asks a more specific question: which response is actually better?