Kiln News:
- Kiln Reaches 2K GitHub Stars: Thanks for the incredible support! I'd love to hear how you discovered Kiln and what you're using it for. Feel to chat on our Discord.
- Join Our Discord Community: Please join to ask questions about Kiln and fine-tuning. We even have a channel for demos of projects built with Kiln.
- Vector Institute Now Using Kiln (Geoff Hinton founded research lab): Read about their FairSense Project, which includes a shout-out to Kiln.
App Release: v0.11.1
What's new in this release:
- 25x Faster Synthetic Data Generation
- Resolved Blank Screen Bug: This affected some new users and Windows 11 machines. Please upgrade to v0.11.1 and try again if you encountered this issue.
- Improved Ollama Support: Structured data (JSON) now performs significantly better with Ollama.
- Windows Code Signing: Fewer "Unrecognized app" prompts and antivirus false positives.
- Other New Features: Disconnect AI providers from settings UI, improved documentation, the ability to clone a task, and viewing synthetic dataset topics in the datasets view.
What's Next:
Our next big project is evaluations. Kiln makes it easy to try various models, prompts, and fine-tunes. However, determining the best option for your project can be challenging. We plan to build evaluations into Kiln to help you rapidly find the best AI stack for your project goals.
Have ideas or requests? Share them on on Discord or on GitHub Discussions.
Thanks for all your support!
Steve - The Kiln Maintainer
