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Enterprise LLMOps

The operational discipline that turns an LLM demo into a governed production system — versioning prompts, evaluating quality and safety, observing behaviour and token cost, and closing the feedback loop. It extends MLOps to handle non-determinism, retrieval, and inference cost.

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LLMOps is the operational discipline that turns an impressive LLM demo into a dependable production system. A demo needs a good prompt and a capable model; a production system needs versioned prompts, evaluation you can trust, observability into behaviour and token cost, engineered guardrails, and a governance loop that catches regressions before customers do.

It extends MLOps to handle what LLMs add: non-deterministic output, retrieval pipelines (RAG), safety, and inference cost that scales with every request. The order that works is deliberate — evaluate first, then version, observe, guardrail, gate every change, and close the feedback loop — because optimising what you cannot measure only produces confident regressions.

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Model Distillation
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Token
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Context Window
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Quantization
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MLOps
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Large Language Model (LLM)
A large language model is an AI system trained on vast amounts of text to understand and generate human-like l...
Inference
Inference is the process of running a trained model to produce an output — for example generating a response o...
Hallucination
A hallucination is when an AI model generates output that is fluent and confident but factually wrong or unsup...
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
RAG is a technique that grounds a language model's answers in your own data by retrieving relevant documents a...
Fine-tuning
Fine-tuning adapts a pre-trained model to a specific task or domain by continuing training on a smaller, targe...
Prompt Engineering
Prompt engineering is the practice of designing the instructions and context given to a language model to get...
Vector Database
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Embeddings
An embedding is a numerical vector that represents the meaning of text, an image or other data, so that semant...
Foundation Model
A foundation model is a large model trained on broad data at scale that can be adapted to many downstream task...

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