AI Alliance Meetup 2
Join us at the Databricks office in San Francisco for a series of lightning talks and to meet the community. Food and beverages provided. This is a bay.area.ai meetup, the most established and continuously running technical AI meetup in the Bay Area. All talks are on functional.tv!
Agenda
5:30-6:00pm socializing, pizza and beer
6:00pm Grand Welcome
Alexy Khrabrov, NumFOCUS, the Bay.Area.AI founder, AI Alliance community co-lead
Eric Peter, Databricks, PM on the Mosaic AI team
Anthony Annunziata, IBM, AI Alliance lead
6:20pm Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM, Abhi Venigalla, Databricks
6:45pm Scaling to the Future:
How We Built the Platform that Trained DBRX, Ajay Saini, Databricks
7:10pm New Model Openness Framework, Matt White, Linux Foundation
7:30pm AI Alliance Panel, Future Directions of Open-Source AI
Christopher Nguyen, AItomatic
Dean Wampler, IBM
Irene Solaiman, HuggingFace
Anthony Annunziata, IBM, moderator
8:30pm Socializing and celebrating the community
About the AI Alliance
The AI Alliance is a collaborative global community committed to advancing open, safe, and responsible artificial intelligence.We are technology creators, adopters, researchers, and policymakers working to maximize AI’s benefits to people everywhere. We focus on building open technologies, advocating for ethical AI practices, and fostering global collaboration while enhancing AI's foundational capabilities and societal trust.