Package updates, more Ollama, fixes

week2/day1.ipynb

@@ -104,8 +104,8 @@
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
     "# import for google\n",
-    "# in rare cases, this seems to give an error on some systems. Please reach out to me if this happens,\n",
-    "# or you can feel free to skip Gemini - it's the lowest priority of the frontier models that we use\n",
+    "# in rare cases, this seems to give an error on some systems, or even crashes the kernel\n",
+    "# If this happens to you, simply ignore this cell - I give an alternative approach for using Gemini later\n",
     "\n",
     "import google.generativeai"
    ]
@@ -148,14 +148,22 @@
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
-    "# Connect to OpenAI, Anthropic and Google\n",
-    "# All 3 APIs are similar\n",
-    "# Having problems with API files? You can use openai = OpenAI(api_key=\"your-key-here\") and same for claude\n",
-    "# Having problems with Google Gemini setup? Then just skip Gemini; you'll get all the experience you need from GPT and Claude.\n",
+    "# Connect to OpenAI, Anthropic\n",
     "\n",
     "openai = OpenAI()\n",
     "\n",
-    "claude = anthropic.Anthropic()\n",
+    "claude = anthropic.Anthropic()"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "425ed580-808d-429b-85b0-6cba50ca1d0c",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# This is the set up code for Gemini\n",
+    "# Having problems with Google Gemini setup? Then just ignore this cell; when we use Gemini, I'll give you an alternative that bypasses this library altogether\n",
     "\n",
     "google.generativeai.configure()"
    ]
@@ -308,7 +316,9 @@
    "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
-    "# The API for Gemini has a slightly different structure\n",
+    "# The API for Gemini has a slightly different structure.\n",
+    "# I've heard that on some PCs, this Gemini code causes the Kernel to crash.\n",
+    "# If that happens to you, please skip this cell and use the next cell instead - an alternative approach.\n",
     "\n",
     "gemini = google.generativeai.GenerativeModel(\n",
     "    model_name='gemini-1.5-flash',\n",
@@ -318,6 +328,28 @@
     "print(response.text)"
    ]
   },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "49009a30-037d-41c8-b874-127f61c4aa3a",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# As an alternative way to use Gemini that bypasses Google's python API library,\n",
+    "# Google has recently released new endpoints that means you can use Gemini via the client libraries for OpenAI!\n",
+    "\n",
+    "gemini_via_openai_client = OpenAI(\n",
+    "    api_key=google_api_key, \n",
+    "    base_url=\"https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1beta/openai/\"\n",
+    ")\n",
+    "\n",
+    "response = gemini_via_openai_client.chat.completions.create(\n",
+    "    model=\"gemini-1.5-flash\",\n",
+    "    messages=prompts\n",
+    ")\n",
+    "print(response.choices[0].message.content)"
+   ]
+  },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": null,
@@ -534,7 +566,7 @@
     "\n",
     "Try creating a 3-way, perhaps bringing Gemini into the conversation! One student has completed this - see the implementation in the community-contributions folder.\n",
     "\n",
-    "Try doing this yourself before you look at the solutions.\n",
+    "Try doing this yourself before you look at the solutions. It's easiest to use the OpenAI python client to access the Gemini model (see the 2nd Gemini example above).\n",
     "\n",
     "## Additional exercise\n",
     "\n",
@@ -584,7 +616,7 @@
    "name": "python",
    "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.11.10"
+   "version": "3.11.11"
   }
  },
  "nbformat": 4,