Join us in episode eight of Practically Intelligent as we welcome Jacob Solawetz, CTO at arcee.ai and former founding engineer at Roboflow. Jacob, a trailblazer in computer vision and AI, discusses the evolution and impact of multimodal AI technologies. Delving into the challenges of developing large-scale vision applications, he offers insights from his rich experience in both vision models and domain-adapting LLMs - and what that means for the future of multimodal AI. Jacob also sheds light on his work at arcee.ai, focusing on specialized language models and the art of model distillation.