AICamp

Last week, we demoed Catch Up AI and our new ReviewNow feature. It was amazing to receive such positive feedback and connect with inspiring managers and engineers who shared their valuable insights! I loved seeing so many hands go up (okay, zero!) when I asked, “Who loves performance review time?” At Catch Up AI, we’re turning performance reviews into a continuous, seamless habit and an experience that people genuinely look forward to. A huge thank you to AICamp, with a special shoutout to Sonam G., and Bill Liu for making it all possible. Here’s to shaping the #FutureOfWork! #TalentManagement #Leadershop

🌟 An Unforgettable AI Meetup Experience! 🌟 On December 1st, I had the privilege of attending an incredible AI meetup hosted in collaboration with Google and Masters Union, packed with cutting-edge tech insights, hands-on demos, and amazing networking opportunities. We explored some fascinating topics, including: 🔹 Semantic Caching 🔹 Token Limits 🔹 Multi-Model and Multi-Modal Scenarios 🔹 AI Product Building 🔹 AI Gateways 🔹 Model Failovers 🔹 LLM OWASP Top 10 & Security 🔹 LLM Governance 🔹 Embeddings & RAG 🔹 Grounding, Fine-Tuning, Observability …and so much more! The session was enriched with hands-on demos using tools like Vertex AI Workbench, Vertex AI Model Garden, Vector Search Datastore, Apigee, LangChain, and other amazing GCP technologies. A huge thanks to the stellar organizing team – Bharat Gupta , Ridhi Jain, and everyone else involved – for their efforts in making this event seamless and engaging. 🙌 Event Highlights: 💡 Tech Talk: Optimizing LLM Speaker: Neelam Pawar(Google) A fantastic session on how to adapt models to meet specific use cases. 💡 Tech Talk: When AI Meets APIs: Unlocking LLMs with Apigee Speaker: Anmol Krishan Sachdeva 🎤 🗣 📝(Google) An insightful deep dive into leveraging the Apigee API Management Platform to unlock the full potential of LLMs and drive AI-driven innovation. This event not only expanded my knowledge but also reignited my passion for AI, Generative AI, and LLMs. I’m looking forward to more such inspiring and enriching meetups with this amazing community! 🚀 A special thanks AICamp and all the speakers as well as organizers for creating such a memorable experience. 🙏 #AI #LLM #GenerativeAI #VertexAI #Apigee #LangChain #GCP #MachineLearning #TechCommunity #Networking #Innovation

Yesterday, I had the amazing opportunity to host the last event of the year 2024 at Microsoft NYC, organized by AICamp, where we took a deep dive into the future of Generative AI! 🚀 🌆 A huge thank you to Bill Liu and Chuxin Liu, PhD for giving me the chance to host this incredible event, and to the amazing team—Javier Schussler, Chunmei ( Ada ) Zhu, Rishav A., Candice You, Ph.D., Vedant Sahai —for their hard work in making it a grand success. Couldn’t have done it without you all! 😊 Also, a big thanks to our incredible speakers for sharing their innovative work and helping us close out the year on such a high note! 👨💻 🔹 Thomas Hjelde Thoresen from Vespa.ai – Building an End-to-End Visual RAG Application Thomas showcased how Vespa.ai is using Visual Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to build an advanced PDF search app with Python, Highlighting Vespa’s ColPali system which has the capacity to scale billions of documents, combining high-speed retrieval and deep learning to push AI to new limits—revolutionizing large-scale search applications. 🔹 Joshua Goldstein from Weaviate – Generative Feedback Loops (GFLs) & Smarter AI Systems Josh introduced Generative Feedback Loops (GFLs) and how they enhance RAG architectures by generating deeper insights, enabling smarter chatbots, agents, and AI solutions. He shared hands-on examples, covering how GFLs work, their challenges, and how to implement them in AI workflows. Josh also used LLMs to select the raffle winner—Swati Gupta, showcasing a fun, creative use of LLMs beyond text generation. A huge thank you to everyone who attended and helped make this final event of the year a success. It's been an amazing year of growth, learning, and connections. We’ve seen incredible progress, and we’re grateful to everyone who's been part of AICamp! 🇺🇲 👩💻

Bom dia, pessoal! Ontem, tive a oportunidade de participar de um Tech Talk sobre IA, LLMs e GuardianRails, promovido pela AICamp na sede do Google for Startups. 💡 Foi um evento super inspirador, com duas palestras ricas em conteúdo. Na primeira, Pedro Gabriel Gengo Lourenço compartilhou suas experiências com a IA e também explorou o uso dela para criação de vídeos a partir de imagens, utilizando seu próprio rosto como personagem. Já na segunda palestra, Eriton Quaresma abordou o conceito de guardrails em soluções de IA, explicando como essas ferramentas podem prevenir fraudes e apresentando exemplos de consequências negativas quando mal implementadas. #AI #genAI #AiCamp

Cool Meetup Alert! I attended my first AICamp meetup last night at the Github space in San Francisco. Great content at this meetup, and I was happy to be there in-person to engage with the presenters in data science and MLOps: Metaflow talked about their GenAI orchestration framework which enables you to define some fairly complex compound GenAI workflows in Pythonic fashion. The data scientist dream is going from a Python notebook to production scaling without a lot of fuss, and it looks like MetaFlow has the created the right abstractions that “make the easy things easy, and the hard things possible.”  They walked through a sophisticated LLM fine-tuning example and talked about how their framework also enables MLOps resiliency and fault tolerance. Given the higher than expected GPU hardware failures we are starting to see (it’s bound to get worse with Blackwell chips), it’s good to see high-availability as a first-class feature. Okareo also addressed the gap between prototyping and production, but their take was more about how the “LLM industry” is not yet focused on reporting the right benchmarks. Instead of enterprise business metrics like adoption, churn, relevancy, etc - LLM scientists keep us mired in the swamp of chatbot leaderboards and MMLU rankings. Getting to that next level of maturity will involve engaging subject matter experts (SMEs) at the earliest stage, from prompt engineering to even fine-tuning decisions. Okareo also predicts that LLM-based synthetic data generation will find its sweet spot in the quality assurance phase of LLM-based applications. Spotfire demo’ed their data science visualization and notebook environment targeted NOT for data scientists but for SMEs! Imagine an LLM as a layer in between the notebook user interface and the underlying data, and that’s what they showed off. Honestly, I haven’t yet been convinced that I need to “talk to my data” on a regular basis, but I can see the value of natural language capabilities in a tool for specific science-adjacent personas, say a chemical engineer optimizing an existing synthesis, or a chip designer leveraging generative AI to outline hypothetical chip floor plan options. After the presentations, there was time to network and mingle - a couple folks found project collaborators, another pitched their startup, and another startup announced open positions. AICamp meetups (https://www.aicamp.ai/) are popping up around many major cities around the World. Try finding one near you! Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with any of the organizations mentioned. The image was taken from one of Okareo's slides which I'd like on a t-shirt someday :)

💡Atlanta RAG Workshop Alert💡 Enterprise RAG has become the foundation for developing AI Assistants and AI Agents. The enthusiastic response to our Lunch & Learn sessions and corporate workshops inspired us to sponsor a discussion on a topic that many are exploring but few are openly addressing. Do It Yourself vs. Vendor focused solutions At AICamp on Wednesday, December 11, 2024, Ofer Mendelevitch, Head of Developer Relations at Vectara, will discuss the challenges of building an enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system versus leveraging a vendor-based solution, highlighting key considerations for each approach. 🔜 Coming in February: Executive-focused dinner in Atlanta with investors and founders 👉 Registrations: https://lnkd.in/e3haVaNF 📅 Date: Wednesday, 11th December 2024. 📅 Time: 5 pm Start (food provided) 📅 Location: ATDC, 75 5th Street NW, Suite 2030, Atlanta, Georgia 30308 🔦 Big thanks to Ofer Mendelevitch, Amr Awadallah, Miluska Berta, Joe Lee, and AICamp!

💡Atlanta RAG Workshop Alert💡 Enterprise RAG has become the foundation for developing AI Assistants and AI Agents. The enthusiastic response to our Lunch & Learn sessions and corporate workshops inspired us to sponsor a discussion on a topic that many are exploring but few are openly addressing. Do It Yourself vs. Vendor focused solutions At AICamp on Wednesday, December 11, 2024 Ofer Mendelevitch, Head of Developer Relations at Vectara, will discuss the challenges of building an enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system versus leveraging a vendor based solution, highlighting key considerations for each approach. 🔜 Coming in February:  Executive focused dinner in Atlanta with investors and founders 👉 Registrations: https://lnkd.in/e3haVaNF 📅 Date: Wednesday, 11th December 2024. 📅 Time: 5pm Start (food provided) 📅 Location: ATDC, 75 5th Street NW, Suite 2030, Atlanta, Georgia 30308 🔦 Big thanks to Ofer Mendelevitch, Amr Awadallah , Miluska Berta Joe Lee and AICamp!

Announcing our next speaker 🔉 for our meetup next week AICamp London x Google Cloud Startup Hub Connor Leahy (Conjecture) Join us for a thought-provoking talk by Connor, one of the minds behind GPT-neoX, an #opensource model similar to ChatGPT-3! GPT-neoX has since been adapted, fine-tuned for various languages and the science domain. I'm excited to hear what he's been up to with his new startup. He'll be diving deep into the world of "cognitive software and outlining a roadmap for a more humanist future of AI". • shift in approach to AI development, • what makes up good foundational AI infrastructure, • how to take inspiration from building complex software systems Don't miss this opportunity to engage with a leading voice in the field! Register here: https://lnkd.in/eKY7_NFf Maybe even pick up tips for the ongoing #LLM hackathon at Harmony! 😁 See you on the 10th! - - - Chris Scammell, Thomas Wood, Rachel Holland Gomes Bill Liu, Kevin Vegda, Subash Natarajan, Tibor O.

🚀𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲! 🚀 AICamp partner events Are you a woman founder or developer looking to create an impact in the community? Join us for a special Women in Tech & Leadership Community Mixer on December 6th, 2024, at the Google Gurgaon office, with Srashti Jain Google Developer Experts | Sneh Soni (Founder & CBO, Freestand) | Ruchita Taneja Aggarwal, Director, Southern APAC, Customer Acquisitions, Google | Srishti Tibrewal Don’t miss out on the opportunity to connect with these inspiring women and other like-minded individuals. Register: https://lnkd.in/guBrfQtP

What AI meetups do you have on your calendar for the rest of this month/year? There are a few worthy evenings organized by AICamp. Like this one that took place at AWS GenAI Loft and where we got a first hand from three great speakers. We started the evening with Ayan Ray who gave us a deep dive into the developer experience Amplify AI Kit, how it leverages for access to various LLMs through Bedrock and how it uses DynamoDB for main data store. We then got to see, not one, but two demoes- first by Danny Banks as he built a review summarizer app and finally by Erik Hanchett showed us Story Helper, a conversational app that generates stories based on user prompts. It was an engaging and interactive evening with lots of questions and insights from dedicated attendance who braved the rain curious to learn about a seamless, serverless developer experience. It's going to be beautiful in the next coming days so join us on the Dec 4, Dec 10, Dec 11 or Dec 12. Or all of them ! You might even meet Devinder Sodhi or Sonam G. or Bill Liu RSVP here https://lnkd.in/dVE2ggGz Thank you to our speakers Ayan Ray, Danny Banks and Erik Hanchett and everyone who joined us.