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Hackathon The developers at Sikka.ai were challenged to build a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) based application using open-source large language models (LLMs) on internal JIRA data. Before starting this challenge, each team received a Sagemaker endpoint with GPU to run their models. 21 unique teams, from various technical backgrounds, competed in building simple interfaces and various unique solutions to the challenge. Teams were judged on two sets of scoring criteria – one focused on user experience, based on application speed and ease of use, and the other focused on the accuracy and quality of the results. The winners (pictured below) received a cash prize, but for Sikka.ai, this was more than just a competition. It was a symbol of the company's values for growth and innovation. This competition was a part of Sikka.ai's dedication to empowering its employees to step outside their comfort zone, challenge themselves to develop new skills and think outside...

Unlike Many, sikka.ai Hasn’t Been Shocked by Inflation – Its “Dental Inflation Indicator” Predicted It

When inflation recently hit its highest year-over-year increase in more than 30 years, it showed what sikka.ai was already seeing in dental recall appointments. Dentists see patients more often in a year than physicians, on average, and are a primary line of healthcare contact…leading to explosive improvements in both diagnostic and economic indicators.” — CEO and Founder Vijay Sikka SAN JOSE, CA, USA, November 24, 2021 — The American Farm Bureau estimates that the prototypical Thanksgiving dinner costs 14% more this year than last, used cars continue to fly off lots, and dollar stores chains are being forced to revisit both their pricing strategies and even their names. Indeed, inflation is the word on everyone’s lips these days. Enter sikka.ai ’s Dental Inflation Indicator™, as discussed recently on CNBC’s “The Exchange” . “Dentists see patients more often in a year than physicians, on average, and are a primary line of healthcare contact with the population. This is leadi...

sikka.ai's ONE API Wins 2022 Best in Health APIs Award

The Sikka ONE API wins a Best in Health APIs award, cementing an early leadership position as infrastructure as a service in the retail healthcare marketplace. Sikka ONE API is helping engineers & API professionals build the future of APIs and the API economy in the multi-trillion-dollar market for API-driven products and services.” — Jonathan Pasky, Executive Producer & Co-Founder of DevNetwork SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, September 19, 2022 -- sikka.ai announces that their Sikka ONE API has won a 2022 API Award in the Best in Health APIs category. The 2022 API Awards celebrate the incredible technical innovation, adoption and reception in the API & Microservices industries and use by a global developer community. This award marks the third time in five years that the Sikka ONE API, which allows companies and developers to deploy applications to over 90% of the dental, veterinary, orthodontics, oral surgery, chiropractic and optom...