161: Leveraging Generative AI Models with Hagay Lupesko

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MosaicML’s VP Of Engineering, Hagay Lupesko, joins us today to discuss generative AI! We talk about how to use existing models as well as ways to finetune these models to a particular task or domain.

00:01:28 Introductions

00:02:09 Hagay’s circuitous career journey

00:08:25 Building software for large factories

00:17:30 The reality of new technologies

00:28:10 AWS

00:29:33 Pytorch’s leapfrog advantage

00:37:24 MosaicML’s mission

00:39:29 Generative AI

00:44:39 Giant data models

00:57:00 Data access tips

01:10:31 MPT-7B

01:27:01 Careers in Mosaic

01:31:46 Farewells

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Links:

Hagay Lupesko:
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hagaylupesko/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/hagay_lupesko
- Github: https://github.com/lupesko
MosaicML:
- Website: https://www.mosaicml.com/
- Careers: https://www.mosaicml.com/careers
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/MosaicML
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mosaicml/
Others:
- Amp It Up (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/Amp-Unlocking-Hypergrowth-Expectations-Intensity/dp/1119836115
- Hugging Face Hub: https://huggingface.co/

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