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Databricks has been innovating the AI landscape, faster than ever before. Hear what's new directly from the Chief AI Scientist at Databricks, Jonathan Frankle, who co-founded MosaicML and now leads the AI research team.

Please register at the official page here: https://events.databricks.com/FY250522-EV-MosaicSpotlightMeetup-NYC

MosaicX Spotlight is a technical meetup series that focuses on applying the latest GenAI research to business use cases. MosaicX Spotlight NYC will be held at The Times Center, and feature researchers and engineers from Databricks, Databricks Mosaic Research, AI Squared, Patronus AI, Osmo AI, and more! For those who would like to discuss the business around GenAI, we will also be joined by Inspired Capital. Join us as we discuss the research, technologies, and techniques behind how we built DBRX, a leading open-source LLM built completely on Databricks. In addition to discussing how we built it, we've invited key GenAI leaders from the NYC area so we can discuss various aspects of GenAI from performance to reliability. Note that the formalized agenda will be available on May 6th.

Lightning Talks

• Cody Blakeney, Mansheej Paul, Brett Larsen: The importance of high-quality data to build your LLMs
• Mihir Patel: Performance optimization and parallelism for MoE training
• Andrew Drozdov: How to evaluate RAG systems

Panel Discussions

We will have panel discussions around the research and business of Generative AI featuring:

• Jonathan Frankle - Chief Scientist\, Neural Networks\, Databricks
• Benjamin Harvey - Founder & CEO\, AI Squared
• Rebecca Qian - Co-founder & CTO\, Patronus AI
• Alex Wiltschko - Founder & CEO\, Osmo AI
• Claire Pan - Investor\, Inspired Capital
• Ofir Press - Post-doc Princeton

This is a first come, first serve catered event with a capacity for 300 people so please sign up before tickets run out.

Welcome to the London Databricks Meetup May 2024 Gen AI Edition! Join us for an exciting evening of Gen AI insights, expert sessions, and networking.

Event Schedule: 18:00 - 18:15: Arrival & Networking Mingle with fellow data enthusiasts and professionals. 18:15 - 18:30: Opening Remarks & Introductions Get to know your fellow attendees and the organizers. 18:30 - 19:00: How we built DBRX - an open high-quality LLM -- Jonathan Frankle -- Chief Scientist\, Neural Networks @ Databricks and Co-Founder of MosaicML

We are excited to introduce DBRX, an open, leading, general-purpose LLM created by Databricks. It provides the open community and enterprises building their own LLMs with capabilities previously limited to closed model APIs. According to our measurements, it surpasses GPT-3.5 and is competitive with Gemini 1.0 Pro. It is an especially capable code model, surpassing specialized models like CodeLLaMA-70B on programming, in addition to its strength as a general-purpose LLM.

19:00 - 19:30: Streamlining Large Language Model (LLM) Operations with MLflow: A Comprehensive Overview -- Sepideh Ebrahimi -- Senior Specialist Solution Architect @ Databricks 19:30 - 20:00: Geospatial Data within Databricks -- Luke Menzies -- Principal AI Consultant @ Advancing Analytics 20:00 onwards: Pizza, Drinks & Networking

Enjoy some delicious pizza and beverages while networking with peers.

Date and Location: Date: 2nd May Venue: IDEAL London Join us for a fantastic evening of learning and networking at the London Databricks meetup!

***Please register at the landing page here to be added to the building security list***

Join us for the first meetup of 2024! Jonathan Frankle, Chief Scientist, Neural Networks (former Chief Scientist as Mosaic) will be talking about what is actually takes to build and LLM and make effective use of Generative AI. Afterwards, we'll break for networking, drinks, and food.

Hope to see you there!

Jonathan Frankle is the Chief Scientist at MosaicML, which was recently bought by Databricks for $1.3 billion.  MosaicML helps customers train generative AI models on their data. Lots of companies are excited about gen AI, and the hope is that their company data and information will be what sets them apart from the competition.  In this conversation with Tristan and Julia, Jonathan discusses a potential future where you can train specialized, purpose-built models, the future of MosaicML inside of Databricks, and the importance of responsible AI practices. For full show notes and to read 6+ years of back issues of the podcast's companion newsletter, head to https://roundup.getdbt.com. The Analytics Engineering Podcast is sponsored by dbt Labs.

Special guest appearance; Chief Scientist, Neural Networks at MosicaML / Databricks.