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Description:

Welcome to the AI meetup in New York City, in collaboration with Vespa. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, GenAI, LLMs & machine learning, food/drink, networking with speakers & fellow developers.

Agenda:

* 5:30pm~6:00pm: Checkin, Food & networking

* 6:00pm~6:10pm: Welcome/community update

* 6:10pm~8:00pm: Tech talks

* 8:00pm: Q&A, Open discussion

Tech Talk: Building a Visual RAG application with Vespa in Python

Speaker: Thomas H. Thoresen (Vespa ai)

Abstract: Thomas will go through the process of building an end-to-end Visual RAG application over PDFs in Vespa, using Python only. The accompanying code is open source, & participants will get valuable insights & tips for building their own Visual RAG applications, & how to make RAG applications scalable & fast. He will also touch on some recent promising directions in document search & retrieval.

Speakers & Topics:

Stay tuned as we are updating speakers & schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: Submit Topics

Sponsors:

We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsor. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, but also gain exposure to our extensive membership base of 20,000+ AI developers in New York or 400K+ worldwide.

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