Epic AI Dev Summit

26/04/2024

💥 LLM Selection: Expert Guidance and Best Practices

Let's reflect on an insightful session by Yuval Belfer from AI21 Labs. Our speaker touched on the topic of LLM selection in a recent speech at the Epic AI Dev Summit.

Choosing the right Language Model can be the key to unlocking transformative results. From accelerating development timelines to improving text data processing.

Here are the key takeaways:

📝 Optimize Prompting
– Ask the Right Questions
Various models may respond differently to the same prompt due to varying tokenizers and training methods. By analyzing accuracy results, particularly focusing on the ending of prompts, you can uncover significant differences in performance.

– Use HELM – https://lnkd.in/gnutKyjj
HELM provides a structured methodology for evaluating LLMs, ensuring thorough testing and informed decision-making. It offers a comprehensive framework for evaluating foundation models, ensuring your questions align with your goals.

– Represent Your Actual Task
Utilize inputs that accurately represent your project's tasks and objectives. This provides insights into how the models will perform in real-world scenarios, helping you make informed decisions aligned with your actual use case.

🤖 Don’t rely solely on automatic metrics​​
– Evaluate Based on Models – https://chat.lmsys.org/
Run JudgeLM like Chatbot Arena to mimic human evaluation. Utilizing prompts and completions with an unbiased LM provides valuable insights into response quality.

– Assess Impartially
JudgeLM offers valuable feedback, but be mindful of its limitations, including inherent bias towards itself. Opt for impartial models for accurate evaluations.

– Conduct Human Che​​cks
Manual checks are still important to ensure a model meets your standards beyond mere numbers, even when your resources are tight.

🤔 Make Informed Decisions
Models with contextual responses, prioritizing "helpfulness" as a deciding factor might seem tempting. However, for businesses, preventing hallucinations holds far greater significance. A low score in this parameter suggests that the model invents information without context.

Ensure your decision aligns with your project's objectives and requirements for optimal outcomes.

💻 Share your experiences! What challenges have you faced in selecting Language Models for your projects, and how did you overcome them?

23/04/2024

📣 Our first post-summit Epic AI Newsletter is out now! Discover exclusive insights and get 10% off the summit’s recordings!

Explore a recap of one of the standout workshops on Building AI Agents with Memory by Zain Hasan, a Senior Developer Advocate at Weaviate.

📧 Inside this edition of the Epic AI Newsletter:

- Understanding of Vector Databases
- Practical Application of the RAG Approach
- Advanced Optimization Techniques
- Special offer for our readers!

Subscribe to access exclusive content from our summit that will revolutionize your AI journey!

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16/04/2024

Let's welcome one more essential partner at the Epic AI Agents Summit — BigDATAwire

A news portal dedicated to providing the latest insights, analysis and information surrounding emerging trends, advances and solutions in big data.

The publication illuminates cutting-edge technologies including networking, storage and applications, and their impact upon business, industry, government, and research. Datanami examines the avalanche of unprecedented amounts of data and the effects the high-end data explosion is having across the IT, enterprise, and commercial markets.

The summit starts in less than a few hours, and you can still secure your free attendance!

15/04/2024

🚨 Epic AI Agents Summit is less than 24 hours away!

Join us for talks, workshops, and discussions with AI experts from Google, Microsoft, D-ID, Weaviate, Aisera, Twelve Labs, Spectrm, Symbl.ai, Quickchat, Arize AI and other leading companies shaping the future of AI right now!

What you will learn at the summit:
– How to Give Your Applications an AI Upgrade with Google Gemini
– Building AI Agents with Memory: Search and Retrieval
– Data-driven approaches to personalising AI Agents
– How to make video agents more accurate using video foundation models
– How to prevent RAG from Destroying Your Brand: strategies for creating chatbots
– Tips for Building Conversational Agents with Specialized LLMs
– Enterprise GPT: How to create your own corporate-secured "ChatGPT" with almost zero specific knowledge,
and even more insights!

Tickets are available via the link in the first comment.

15/04/2024

Exciting discussions ahead at the Epic AI Agents Summit!

Our host, Filip Sobiecki, is ready to lead engaging conversations with industry experts.

With over a decade of experience in the tech industry, he has facilitated significant growth for companies across various sectors. Filip is also a seasoned interviewer, having hosted over 100 podcasts with CEOs and founders.

Here's a sneak peek into the upcoming panels:

April 16th: Uncover "The reality of being an AI startup Founder in 2024" with Julija Bainiaksina, PhD from MiniMe ai and Piotr Grudzień from Quickchat AI.

Julija has been developing products in the AI, Finance, and e-commerce industries, transitioning from an engineer to a founder. Armed with a PhD in Machine Learning from UCL, Julija is passionate about integrating AI knowledge into Web3 and currently leads MiniMe, a platform empowering experts to create their own AI digital twin.

Piotr is the CTO of Quickchat AI, Y Combinator alumni. He has been leading the technology team since 2020, contributing to the advancement of AI-driven communication platforms.

Let’s explore together with these experts:
– How to initiate entrepreneurial paths and navigate pivoting experiences;
– The evolving landscape of the AI industry and its impact on AI-related companies;
– The changing attitudes of investors towards AI startups,
and other hot questions!

April 17th: Join us to find out "How later-stage companies are adopting AI" with Martin Trajkow from OUTFITTERY, a major scale-up company in European retail.

Martin, an engineering leader with over a decade of experience, has observed and worked on the development of AI within the Outfittery systems. He also co-founded Robalyst, based in Lausanne, Switzerland, with the mission to revolutionize investment decision-making through NLP and probabilistic inference.

During this discussion, you will gain insight into:
– What you should know in advance if you’re a late-stage company considering adopting AI;
– What necessary changes it will bring to your business;
– What are the high risks and high rewards associated with adopting AI.

Discover the challenges, rewards, and essential considerations when integrating AI into established businesses.

Remember, the summit kicks off at 9 am PDT (GMT-7 timezone) tomorrow! Secure your spot now! Let's explore the future of AI together.

14/04/2024

Are you ready for our upcoming workshop on Interfacing with AI Agent APIs?

Zain Hasan, a senior ML developer relations engineer at Weaviate, will lead the session.

Trained as an engineer and data scientist, he has been specializing in creating artificially intelligent assistive technologies and founded his own digital health technology company, VinciLabs.
Zain’s workshop provides a keen insight into how vector databases can revolutionize the way AI agents store and retrieve information. You'll gain practical experience in building AI Agents with memory.

Secure your full-access ticket now to discover more transformative AI insights!

12/04/2024

How can you effectively evaluate an LLM and use it in your app’s production?

Meet Amber R., a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Arize AI. With a diverse background in data science and machine learning engineering, she's honed her expertise through roles as product manager of AI at Splunk and the Head of Artificial Intelligence at Insight Data Science.

In her speaking session, Amber will share valuable knowledge on LLM evaluation. You'll learn about the Five Pillars for successfully observing LLM Apps in production and more!

Secure your spot now to boost your understanding of Generative AI!

12/04/2024

We are happy to announce our esteemed partners for the Epic AI Agents Summit!

Our Gold Partner – Social Discovery Group(SDG), is a global technology company that builds apps at the intersection of dating, social, and entertainment. With a portfolio of 70 social discovery platforms, SDG focuses on AI, game mechanics, and video streaming to foster connections worldwide.

Leveraging AI, SDG creates apps that help people combat loneliness and build meaningful connections globally. The company incorporates the latest advancements in AI, including AI-powered matchmaking algorithms, conversation starters, and security features to meet user needs and create a safe space for singles all over the world.

And another partner – D-ID, creators of AI-based image-generating software. Specializing in Natural User Interface (NUI) technologies, D-ID’s platform seamlessly transforms images, text, videos, audio, and voice into highly engaging Digital People, offering a uniquely immersive experience. D-ID combines facial synthesis and deep learning expertise to deliver interactive AI experiences in multiple languages, elevating and scaling the way we connect and create in the digital world.

Only 4 days left until the summit — secure your full access tickets now to unlock all talks and workshops!

11/04/2024

Tips for Building Conversational Agents with Specialized LLMs

This is what Kartik Talamadupula will speak about at our upcoming summit!

Kartik is a research scientist and Director of AI Research at Symbl.ai, focusing on the company’s latest AI product, the Nebula large language model (LLM). Nebula is specialized for communication and interaction data.

During his session, Kartik will guide you through the dynamic landscape of conversational AI. He'll discuss how to train specialized LLMs on conversation data, benchmarking techniques, and the multilingual capabilities of these models.

Additionally, you'll discover more about:

- Conversational platforms and models
- Real world LLM needs
- Embeddings vs. context lengths
- Domain adaptation with LLMs
- Use cases enabled by specialized LLMs and more.

Don't miss out on valuable insights that you can apply directly to your work!

​​📅 Save the Date: April 16­­—17, Online, 9 am — 1 pm PT

10/04/2024

Exploring Google's Gemini: Transforming AI Workflows with Enhanced Multimodality and Scalable Solutions.

Our summit is just around the corner, with just a few days to go! Today, we're thrilled to announce our next speaker: Nikhil Rana, AI consultant at Google Cloud.

Nikhil is an applied data science professional with over a decade of experience in developing and implementing Machine learning, Deep Learning, and NLP-based solutions for a variety of industries like Finance, FMCG, etc.

At the summit, Nikhil will share fascinating insights about Google's Gemini model:

– Enabling flexibility and scalability for diverse project needs, from large-scale cloud apps to nimble mobile solutions;
– Ability to understand and process diverse data types: text, code, audio, images, and video;
– Enhanced long-context understanding and more.

Join us for a session where we explore ways to integrate Gemini into your applications.

Grab your full-access ticket here: https://www.epicaidev.com/

08/04/2024

Excited to introduce our next summit speaker and his talk!

Meet Travis Couture, Founding Solutions Architect at Twelve Labs. With over 7 years of experience, Travis specializes in transforming AI workflows from concept to reality.

Twelve Labs' mission is to help developers create programs that can see, hear, and understand the world as we do by providing them with the most powerful video-understanding infrastructure.

In his talk, Travis will delve into the latest advancements in video foundation models, highlighting key points such as:

– Challenges with traditional video agent approaches and the need for a new solution
– How to enhance video agent accuracy without overloading the front-end language models
– The case of Twelve Labs' innovative video agent and its integration with their multimodal AI models
– How Twelve Labs' Marengo and Pegasus models provide rich contextual access to video content, eliminating the need for front-end LLMs to piece together context from text-tokens alone

Don't miss Travis's insights and actionable tips to enhance your video agent's performance!

08/04/2024

Excited to introduce our next summit speaker and his talk!

Meet Travis Couture, Founding Solutions Architect at Twelve Labs. With over 7 years of experience, Travis specializes in transforming AI workflows from concept to reality.

Twelve Labs' mission is to help developers create programs that can see, hear, and understand the world as we do by providing them with the most powerful video-understanding infrastructure.

In his talk, Travis will delve into the latest advancements in video foundation models, highlighting key points such as:

– Challenges with traditional video agent approaches and the need for a new solution

– How to enhance video agent accuracy without overloading the front-end language models

– The case of Twelve Labs' innovative video agent and its integration with their multimodal AI models

– How Twelve Labs' Marengo and Pegasus models provide rich contextual access to video content, eliminating the need for front-end LLMs to piece together context from text-tokens alone

Don't miss Travis's insights and actionable tips to enhance your video agent's performance!

06/04/2024

Flash Sale Weekend is Here! 🚀

Get 20% off with promo code EPICFLASH

If you feel like saving money but still want to get a full-access ticket to our Summit, we have a solution – a special Flash Sale Weekend!

What's included in the Full Access ticket?
– Two days filled with senior track talks
– Interactive workshops
– Networking spreadsheet
– Access to event recordings, and more!

Join us to gain insights about Google’s Gemini, Microsoft's PromptFlow, video foundation models, a natural user interface, a data-driven approach to personalising AI Agents, and other hot topics!

Hurry up, only 20 tickets are available!

Grab your ticket here: https://www.epicaidev.com/

03/04/2024

Can RAG affect your brand image? What pitfalls are there for LLM-based conversational AI?

Discover how to tackle this pressing problem with our speaker Saurabh Shekhar Verma, Head of Artificial Intelligence at Spectrm, renowned for his extensive expertise in ML, NLP, and deep learning algorithms.

Join him for an enlightening talk, where he'll get into the nuances of RAG, a method that enhances factual content accuracy in LLMs for product and brand information.

Gain insight into why RAG isn't sufficient for complete brand safety and integrity despite its benefits. Let’s explore various strategies aimed at achieving these crucial goals together.

Unlock actionable strategies from an industry expert at our upcoming summit!

​​📅 Save the Date: April 16­­—17, Online, 9 am — 1 pm PT

02/04/2024

📣Epic launch! A free Epic AI Newsletter is here! 💌

We're thrilled to announce the launch of our brand-new newsletter – your source for groundbreaking insights and updates in artificial intelligence.

We're here to guide you, focusing on the latest advancements and trends in AI technology.

In this newsletter, we'll share exclusive insights from our expert speakers, providing you with invaluable information typically reserved for our summit attendees.

Subscribe now to join us on this AI journey!

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29/03/2024

How to Fuel Your AI Agent with a Data-Driven Approach for Optimal Performance?

Meet Sayan Bhattacharyya, our expert speaker from Aisera, specializing in AI/ML with over 6 years of industry experience.

Sayan will provide insightful analysis of data-driven approaches to AI agent personalization, drawing on his extensive background in conducting proof of concepts (POC) and delivering compelling demonstrations.

Learn actionable strategies to empower your AI agent with today's data-driven approach at our upcoming summit!

22/03/2024

🚀 Breaking News: First Speakers Released for the April 16­­-17 Summit!

Exciting lineup of experts from top-tier companies ready to share invaluable insights on our virtual stage.

We will talk about:
— How to build scalable GenAI Apps using prompts
— Data-driven approaches to personalizing AI Agents
— Crafting AI agents with a natural user interface
— Building robust & scalable AI-powered chatbots;
— The reality of being an AI Founder in 2024
— How Later Stage Companies Adopted AI
— Creating your own corporate-secured "ChatGPT" with almost zero specific knowledge
— Fine-tuning strategies for adapting pre-trained AI Agents to specific use cases

Take your chance to learn from the best in the field! 🔥

07/03/2024

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟 At the upcoming Epic AI Agents Summit, we're happy to partner again with D-ID, co-organizers of our recent Epic AI Dev Summit 🎉

As we work on the program dedicated to AI Agents, let us share some insights from D-ID, the leading experts in Natural User Interface (NUI) technologies.

🌐 Just as we witnessed the transition from textual to graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in the past, NUI is poised to be the next major interface shift in technology, paving the way for more intuitive and engaging digital experiences;

🤖 Incorporating human faces into AI-generated content is key, and will help amplify engagement and drive better business outcomes;

🔍 Large Language Models (LLMs) have limitations to their contextual understanding, performance, and occasional inaccuracies. Finding ways to address these challenges, through solutions like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), can enhance the capabilities of LLMs and improve their performance;

💡It’s important to leverage information retrieval techniques, including chunking information, optimizing queries, and instructing AI agents for specific contexts. These strategies ensure that users receive relevant and accurate information, enhancing overall satisfaction;

⚡ Latency optimization in AI-powered applications is a critical factor in delivering seamless user experiences. Techniques such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS) can help minimize latency and provide a more natural user experience;

📈 By 2025, 30% of all outbound messages from large organizations will be synthetically generated, and half of customers will interact with digital humans by 2026. So if you want to build your business, to create a future-oriented product, you should start using AI avatars and NUI.

Share your experience with NUI in the comments to this post 🤖

PS
Also, don't miss D-ID's eye-opening blog post on how AI Agents empower SMBs – check it out at the link below! 💥

26/02/2024

📣📣 Big announcement!! 📣📣
We saw how excited you were when we touched upon topics of AI Agents at our recent online summit.
So, we decided to dedicate the next online event to this! 🤩
Epic AI Agents Summit is coming on April 16-17 📆

We will talk about
- Building robust & scalable AI-powered chatbots;
- Reinforcement learning algorithms in crafting AI agents;
- Fine-tuning strategies for adapting pre-trained AI Agents to specific use cases;
- Crafting AI agents with a natural user interface;
- Data-driven approaches to personalising AI Agents;
- Interfacing with AI Agent APIs: Integration Patterns, Authentication, and - Security;
- Creating your own corporate-secured "ChatGPT" with almost zero specific knowledge,
and other hot topics!

🦉 Be an early bird and register now! (find a link in the comments)

06/02/2024

We launched the Epic AI Dev Summit a week ago and it went super intense🔥 If you missed it, don't worry – you can grab the recordings on our website!

During the two days of the summit, 30+ speakers delivered their talks to 1,000+ online attendees from all over the world! 🌎
The top countries as attendees stated themselves were the US, Israel, Poland, Germany, Spain, Portugal, France, and Canada ✌

So where should we meet next time? 😉

31/01/2024

We're halfway through our Epic AI Dev Summit 2024 🚀
Look at this amazing lineup of speakers below – half of them are yet to present their insightful talks! 💡
Meet AI21 Labs Anyscale Wrike RAPYD AI Jina AI Weaviate and other experts who will join us on stage today.

If you are a full-access ticket holder, you can join the upcoming stream and watch yesterday's recordings in case you missed it.

29/01/2024

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Two of them were kind to prepare presents for our attendees >>>

The newsletter "Turing Post” offers one free month of its premium newsletter to our summit attendees.
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To get one of these presents or both, please, fill in a Google form in a comment to this post and we'll come back to you!

26/01/2024

We'd like to introduce you to the co-organizer of the Epic AI Dev Summit – D-ID!
At the summit, their speaker and VP of R&D, Or Gorodissky, will share his insights about Crafting AI agents with a natural user interface.

By the way, DataconomyMedia has recently published an interview that he gave to our Founder, Alexey Pisarevsky, on this topic.

Check it out at the link in the first comment and join our live stream on January 30th!

A bit about the company:
D-ID creates AI-based image-generating software. Specializing in Natural User Interface (NUI) technologies, D-ID’s platform seamlessly transforms images, text, videos, audio, and voice into highly engaging Digital People, offering a uniquely immersive experience.
D-ID combines facial synthesis and deep learning expertise to deliver interactive AI experiences in multiple languages, elevating and scaling the way we connect and create in the digital world.

12/01/2024

📣 The first half of Epic AI Dev Summit talks are on the website 👀
Come check it out and grab your ticket!
Don't miss hands-on content from top-level experts 🤩

21/12/2023

💥 First speakers released!💥
These top experts will share their unique knowledge with you on our virtual stage on January 30-31 👩‍💼

Get ready for insightful talks with best practices from the industry leaders, hands-on workshops to boost your skills, and networking activities with fellow enthusiasts!👨‍💻

First topics to be out soon 🤓
Hurry up to grab your full-access ticket before the price increases tomorrow! 🚀

12/12/2023

And off we go! 🚀 We're happy to announce Epic AI Dev Summit 🚀
📅 When? January 30-31
📍 Where? Online (so you can join from anywhere in the world)
🔍 For whom? AI developers, data scientists, engineers, CTOs and Tech team leads.
🧠 From whom? The world's leading companies in the AI industry: Databricks, GitHub, Hugging Face, Speechify, Zilliz, Primer.ai, Inworld AI, and many more.
🎟 How much? Free for junior professionals, only $39 for the seniors.
Hurry up – the price increases every week!

Join us to learn the best practices and find out how to introduce them to your work 👩‍💻👨‍💻
Stay tuned!