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Pioneering AI Models for Regional Languages // Aleksa Gordić // #203

Jan 12, 2024
Aleksa Gordić, ex-Google DeepMind/Microsoft ML engineer, discusses pioneering AI models for regional languages, focusing on the development of YugoGPT. They explore unique language dynamics in the Balkans, business opportunities for multilingual models, and challenges in deploying large language models. The conversation delves into Aleksa's experience with vision and image models, collaborations with tech players, and use of advanced technologies. They also discuss open sourcing models, the lack of language support, and advantages/limitations of working for a company.
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Quick takeaways

  • The need for creative approaches to adapt existing language models to different languages while preserving reasoning capabilities.
  • Opportunities in the multi-lingual space and the potential for tackling different markets by training and adapting large-scale language models.

Deep dives

Building non-English large language models

The speaker used to work as a research engineer at DeepMind and is now building non-English large language models and starting a company around it.

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