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Guest Erik Bernhardsson, AI engineer and creator of Annoy vector database and Luigi workflow orchestration tool, discusses building open source tools at Spotify, starting a new startup, improving developer productivity, fine-tuning language models, and challenges of running a startup.
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  • Modal is a cloud provider that focuses on developer experience, offering fast container starting and stopping for efficient auto scaling and cost optimization.
  • Modal differentiates itself by focusing on custom models and workflows, utilization optimization, and cost efficiency, while offering safe code execution through its sandbox feature.

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AI Infrastructure and Language Models on Model

Model is a cloud provider that offers a second layer of cloud infrastructure, focusing on developer experience and user productivity. It supports a wide range of workloads, including AI inference, fine-tuning, and custom models. The platform allows for fast container starting and stopping, enabling efficient auto scaling and cost optimization. Language models and chatbots are popular use cases on Model, with examples like Eric bot demonstrating the capabilities of the platform. Model also excels in tasks like web scraping, protein folding, and video processing. It aims to be a general-purpose compute platform for data teams and AI engineers. While it competes with some specialized providers like Replicate, it differentiates itself with its focus on custom models and workflows, utilization optimization, and cost efficiency. Model also offers safe code execution through its sandbox feature, providing strong isolation and security for running arbitrary code within containers.

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