This time, we're opening the doors of the Factory office to talk about the open-source wave: MiniMax, Baseten, Moonshot, and friends, and what it takes to build on models you can actually own. You are welcome to join us at the Factory office, and learn more and discuss the state of open-source models, running and fine-tuning open weights in production, model sovereignty, and more! Expect food, drinks, lightning talks, and great company. The event is for approved-only attendees, and we will make sure you really do create meaningful connections beyond networking. See you at Factory HQ! P.S. If you're lucky, you might get an exclusive copy of Philip Kiely's Inference Engineering book! Program Lightning talks from the teams building and betting on open models: 6:15 Baseten lightning talk 6:30 Factory lightning talk 6:45 MiniMax lightning talk 7:00 Moonshot lightning talk 7:15 One selected community demo. To demo, apply here. 7:30 Mini speaker panel with Q&A ran by Ray Fernando 8:00 Networking, coworking, food & drinks Factory Refuel Series This event is part of the Factory Refuel developer event series. To stay updated: • Subscribe to the event calendar • Follow Factory on X and LinkedIn Brought to you by Factory, the software factory powering NVIDIA, EY, Adobe, and others with their Droids.
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