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With founders Somi Agarwal (Synthefy), Max Rumpf (Sid AI), Bola Malek (Head of Baseten, Model Labs), Constance Grisoni (Chief Growth Officer, Gradium).
Sep 17 (Thu) @ 06:00 PM       FREE
Venue, 150 Pacific Ave, SF

 
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For the past few years, companies have turned to large frontier models to build their AI applications, as they could address most use cases & were the only viable options at scale. But this world is changing fast, & today, the teams shipping the best AI products are increasingly turning to smaller, specialized models because they beat the generalists on core tasks, are often much faster, & can be deployed at a fraction of the cost.

Some common examples we think of are voice AI that can respond in real time, fast retrieval in structured data documents, or predictions off tables businesses run on.

Join Baseten & leaders from Gradium, Synthefy, & Sid.ai for drinks, snacks, fun demos, & a candid conversation about why the industry is shifting toward a multi-model world & how Baseten can help power it.

We are bringing together leaders at three labs building for this new world:

Constance Grisoni: Chief Growth Officer of Gradium - A real-time text-to-speech, speech-to-text & voice cloning at ultra-low latency.

Somi Agarwal: Co-Founder of Synthefy - A foundation model for structured data that enables predictions & forecasts straight from tables.

Max Rumpf: Co-Founder of Sid.ai - An agent search model specialized in retrieval that outperforms frontier models on recall while running an order of magnitude faster & cheaper.

The panel will be moderated by Bola Malek, Head of Baseten for Model Labs. They will go into what their models do that a general-purpose model can't, where the specialist vs. generalist line falls, & what it takes to run a fleet of models in production efficiently & at scale.

This event is hosted by Baseten - the training & inference platform behind some of the most demanding AI workloads in production like Abridge, Cursor, Notion, & OpenEvidence. Most bring their own models. We make them fast.
 
 
 
 
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