161: Leveraging Generative AI Models with Hagay Lupesko

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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