#241 Getting Generative AI Into Production with Lin Qiao, CEO and Co-Founder of Fireworks AI

Lot’s of AI use-cases can start with big ideas and exciting possibilities, but turning those ideas into real results is where the challenge lies. How do you take a powerful model and make it work effectively in a specific business context? What steps are necessary to fine-tune and optimize your AI tools to deliver both performance and cost efficiency? And as AI continues to evolve, how do you stay ahead of the curve while ensuring that your solutions are scalable and sustainable? 

Lin Qiao is the CEO and Co-Founder of Fireworks AI. She previously worked at Meta as a Senior Director of Engineering and as head of Meta's PyTorch, served as a Tech Lead at Linkedin, and worked as a Researcher and Software Engineer at IBM. 

In the episode, Richie and Lin explore generative AI use cases, getting AI into products, foundational models, the effort required and benefits of fine-tuning models, trade-offs between models sizes, use cases for smaller models, cost-effective AI deployment, the infrastructure and team required for AI product development, metrics for AI success, open vs closed-source models, excitement for the future of AI development and much more. 

Links Mentioned in the Show:

• Fireworks.ai
• Hugging Face - Preference Tuning LLMs with Direct Preference Optimization Methods
• Connect with Lin
• Course - Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy
• Related Episode: Creating Custom LLMs with Vincent Granville, Founder, CEO & Chief Al Scientist at GenAltechLab.com
• Rewatch sessions from RADAR: AI Edition

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