Using model aliases in OCI Gen AI 🧠

One thing I’ve been caught out with in the past with OCI Gen AI is when an AI model gets retired and my apps that specifically call the model start to fail as the model is no longer available!

The fix for this isn’t particularly difficult, it’s just a case of updating the code to point to the new model name (via model_id), this can be quite stressful though when you are about to deliver a demo to a customer 😫.

I was really pleased to see the introduction of model aliases (Cohere-only at this time), so rather than using a hardcoded reference to a specific model version you can now use the following aliases, which will always point to the latest version of the Cohere Command R and Coheren Command R+ models.

cohere.command-latest points to cohere.command-r-08-20204
cohere.command-plus-latest points to cohere.command-r-plus-08-2024

Full details are included in the documentation 📖.