Latitude

What is Latitude?

Latitude is a cutting-edge reliability layer^[1] designed specifically for AI products. It focuses on detecting failures, measuring performance, and automatically enhancing model quality^[3]. By providing insights into AI system behavior, Latitude empowers teams to understand and rectify issues effectively, ensuring that AI applications are reliable and robust. This tool serves as a complete control plane for scaling AI products, transforming production failures into clear signals for improvement.

How to use Latitude?

1. Sign Up: Begin by creating an account on the Latitude website.
2. Integrate Telemetry: Add OTEL-compatible telemetry to your existing LLM calls to capture essential data like prompts, inputs, and outputs.
3. Capture Data: Start collecting real-time data from your AI systems to gain insights into their performance and behavior.
4. Analyze Feedback: Use the observability^[4] features to review input and output data, understanding where failures occur.
5. Optimize Performance: Implement the automatic evaluation tools to continuously test and refine your AI models.

What are the main features of Latitude?

• Observability: Capture and analyze real inputs, outputs, and context from live traffic to understand actual system performance.
• Error Analysis^[5]: Automatically group failures into recurring issues, helping to detect common failure modes.
• Human Feedback^[6] Integration: Annotate AI responses with human judgment to enhance learning and signal identification.
• Automatic Evaluations^[7]: Convert real failure modes into continuous evaluations to catch regressions before they impact users.
• Prompt Manager and Optimizer: Test prompt variations against evaluations and optimize them to reduce failures over time.

Who is Latitude for?

Latitude is designed for AI product teams, data scientists, and developers who are focused on building reliable AI applications. It is particularly useful for organizations that require real-time insights into their AI systems' performance, enabling them to identify and rectify failures quickly. Companies scaling AI products at various stages of development will find Latitude's features essential for maintaining quality and reliability in production.

What are the use cases of Latitude?

1. Monitoring AI Performance: Use Latitude to track the performance of AI models in real-time, ensuring they operate within expected parameters.
2. Failure Detection^[2]: Automatically identify and categorize failures in AI outputs, allowing teams to address issues proactively.
3. Continuous Improvement: Leverage automatic evaluations to refine AI models based on live data, enhancing accuracy and reliability over time.