From my consulting work, I have seen the need to integrate a custom model into an LLM often since GPT-3.5 was released. I've started to call this type of model+integration an AI Plugin and I wrote a brief blog post describing the concept:
https://demajh.com/human_blog/ai_plugin.html
I would love feedback from anyone and everyone on the concept. I'm sure others have done similar work and any input you have would be much appreciated.
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