Migrating from closed to open source models, Together

A practical, five-stage playbook for moving from closed models to open source models: discover, evaluate, adapt, decide, and take it to production.

Kareem Abdol-Hamid, Zain Hasan, Sonny Khan

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Migrations are the bane of any mature company. Systems are deeply integrated, you have key stakeholders across domains, and a small improvement can take months or years to integrate in traditional cases. Recently, the latest candidate for migration has been closed source to open source models (OSM). The promise of cost savings and distributed ownership of technology has always been compelling. Is it worth it though?

Luckily, closed to open source breaks the tradition of slow and painful migration, especially if you adopt a managed service. These services keep up with the pace of AI innovation while offloading much of the complexity from your business.

Now the blast radius is much smaller, and the technical stack you need to migrate is less complex. Harnesses, gateways, and tooling are all built to adopt a variety of models. You can take full advantage of this for a quick and holistic migration from closed to open source.

We'll walk you through a successful migration strategy we've seen with our customers. This can take weeks to months rather than months to years. In future, we'll also provide assets to help you track your progress along the way.

This is an overview. We will provide deep dives for each section we feel could use more color, with workbooks, examples, and walkthroughs.