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Notes from projects, teaching and research, no marketing buzz.

14 min read
Dr. Sergej Schultenkämper

Open Source - operating a central AI platform in the enterprise with LibreChat

LibreChat brings different AI models, internal data sources and tools together on one central platform. What matters is less the interface than the architecture behind it: data flows, permissions, integrations and operations have to work together cleanly.

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4 min read
Dr. Frederik Bäumer

AI Nuggets: one topic per quarter hour, 4 slides at most

A learning format from Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences (HSBI): exactly one AI concept, technique or tool per 15 minutes, 4 slides at most. Why this works so well right now and how we use it with clients.

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2 min read
Alexander Stahlkopf

Hinterland of Things 2026: wonk.ai is exhibiting in Bielefeld

On 18 June 2026, the B2B innovation network meets in our home town, Bielefeld. We will be there as exhibitors.

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7 min read
Dr. Frederik Bäumer

GenAI for writing: where the human must stay in the loop, and where not

Fully automatic or with a sign-off? When writing with generative AI, the right division of labour decides quality and trust.

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6 min read
Alexander Stahlkopf

OMR 2026: wonk.ai is exhibiting at B6 I07

We are very happy to be an exhibitor at OMR in Hamburg. You will find us in the Premium Hall at B6 I07.

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5 min read
Dr. Sergej Schultenkämper

Your AI project won't fail because of the AI, it'll fail because of your data

The uncomfortable truth from almost every project: the model is rarely the problem. How bad data ruins good AI, and what helps.

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8 min read
Dr. Frederik Bäumer

robots.txt won't protect you from LLM crawlers: a sign is not a lock

What robots.txt really is, what its RFC says, and why assuming everyone obeys it stays wishful thinking.

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9 min read
Dr. Frederik Bäumer

Agentic RAG: when the AI doesn't just search, it works the problem

What retrieval-augmented generation does, why an agent goes further, and where the limits remain.

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3 min read
Alexander Stahlkopf

Congratulations, Dr. Sergej Schultenkämper: PhD with summa cum laude

Our lead engineer Sergej Schultenkämper has completed his PhD with the distinction summa cum laude. We congratulate him wholeheartedly.

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2 min read
Alexander Stahlkopf

Dr Frederik Simon Bäumer is a professor at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences

We are delighted that Dr Frederik Simon Bäumer is now professor of information systems with a focus on data science at HSBI.

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4 min read
Alexander Stahlkopf

Which AI translates best? DeepL, Google Translate, Azure Translate, ChatGPT?

A small blind test with five English translations of one German consulting sentence, and why corporate language wins in the end.

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5 min read
Dr. Frederik Bäumer

Language models are not knowledge bases

Why ChatGPT & co. are genuinely useful, but don't replace a search engine, and what we do at wonk.ai instead.

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