#72 - LLMs, Open-Source and Head of GTM at Adaptive ML with Andrew Jardine

Curious about the challenges of LLMs, closed-source vs open-source, and the most common applications? If so, tune in to this episode. I had an amazing time learning from Andrew Jardine . Thanks again for sharing!

🎙️ Who is Andrew Jardine?

Andrew Jardine is the Head of GTM at Adaptive ML and an advocate for open-source ML. He is also the leader of the MLOps community in Toronto. Andrew's AI journey began as an early employee at Kira Systems, a Doc AI and NLP startup, where he developed the GTM playbook for the corporate market. He has since held commercial roles at Hugging Face, and worked in data science and MLOps industries. Andrew has a diverse background, having worked as a management consultant in London, qualified as a chartered accountant, and obtained a master's degree in engineering.

💡 In this episode...

... we discuss Andrew's fascination with gen AI use cases and LLMS advancements, and the challenges and benefits of implementing open-source AI. We talk about overcoming the challenges of open-source language models through an innovative LLM platform, evaluating LLMs for specific use cases, ensuring safety and toxicity, and more. Andrew also explains how open-source models can help large enterprises control costs and extract data, and discusses the choice between open or closed source models.

Most valuable lessons

1. There are many benefits to open source AI, including trustworthiness, control, and customizability. However, many people still struggle to effectively use open source AI language models.

2. Closed models offer convenience and better out-of-the-box performance, but at a higher cost.

3. AI technology is constantly evolving, creating new career opportunities.

4. Basic education in math can be helpful for understanding the underlying technology of AI, even if it is not in the field of computer science.

5. Companies like Adaptive ML and Hugging Face advocate for open source AI and have strongly contributed to its advancement.

6. Fine-tuning open source models through preference alignment can lead to better performance at a lower cost and lower latency.

7. Companies should carefully consider their specific use cases and requirements before deciding whether to use open or closed source models.

8. Evaluation of AI models can have several layers, including traditional benchmarks, custom benchmarks, and downstream business metrics. It's important to use downstream business metrics as an evaluator eventually, which is the eventual business outcome that the enterprise cares about.

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Warm regards,

Thomas