--- title: "AI Evolition: Survival of the fastest? " newsletter: "MLOps Community" date: 2024-08-15 source: https://aaif.live/newsletters/mlopscommunity/2024-08-15-ai-evolition-survival-of-the-fastest --- # AI Evolition: Survival of the fastest? *Plus, how to get quality people for your quality AI, Cookiecutter MLOps Package hits a sweet spot for projects, and hidden gems.* *MLOps Community — Agentic AI Foundation, 2024-08-15* https://home.mlops.community/home/collections/aiqcon-san-francisco-2024-2024-07-23 The videos from our recent AIQCON are now available [https://home.mlops.community/home/collections/aiqcon-san-francisco-2024-2024-07-23]! RAG or not to RAG, balancing speed and safety, data quality, debugging AI applications... it's all here and more! Plus, we recently had our Reading Group discussing Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL [https://news.mlops.community/e/c/eyJlIjoxNTY4NzAsImVtYWlsX2lkIjoiZXhhbXBsZSIsImhyZWYiOiJodHRwczovL2FyeGl2Lm9yZy9wZGYvMjQwNi4xMzEyMT91dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249V2Vla2x5K05ld3NsZXR0ZXIrLSsyMDI0LTA4LTA4XHUwMDI2dXRtX2NvbnRlbnQ9V2Vla2x5K05ld3NsZXR0ZXJcdTAwMjZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsX2FjdGlvblx1MDAyNnV0bV9zb3VyY2U9Y3VzdG9tZXIuaW8iLCJ0IjoxNzIzNjM5OTQ4fQ/240d1ae5f4bd7a95d969259abf31abbd88f2ac2768e43f5fa9bc2877e00b80e4]. Thanks to all those that attended, and the great hosts. There's a great summary of it here [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sonamgupta11_summary-of-can-long-context-language-models-activity-7228830108952801280-R1kr], and be sure to keep an eye out for the next one. [now available](https://home.mlops.community/home/collections/aiqcon-san-francisco-2024-2024-07-23) ## The Variational Book // Yuri Plotkin // MLOps Podcast #253 🎶You say you want AI revolutiooooon, you know… these things don’t just happen.🎵 Not as catchy as The Beatles, but more accurate, and something I have much more of an appreciation for after this chat about the evolution of gen AI models. We talked about how tweaking the architecture has really sped up diffusion models, and how non-Markovian models can make inference faster without messing with the training. Bayesian modeling and variational inference came up too as crucial for getting your head around generative methods, and his book coming in the next few months will be a great place to learn more on everything in this episode. Remember - revolutions bring you back to where you started, evolutions move you forward. Video [https://home.mlops.community/home/videos/the-variational-book] || Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/episode/3DVa2OHmpY4icXFINHqiPD?si=z6nOxuIPQ9WjknvkIPxitQ] || Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-variational-book-yuri-plotkin-253/id1505372978?i=1000665171234] [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-variational-book-yuri-plotkin-253/id1505372978?i=1000665171234](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-variational-book-yuri-plotkin-253/id1505372978?i=1000665171234) [https://home.mlops.community/home/videos/the-variational-book](https://home.mlops.community/home/videos/the-variational-book) [https://open.spotify.com/episode/3DVa2OHmpY4icXFINHqiPD?si=z6nOxuIPQ9WjknvkIPxitQ](https://open.spotify.com/episode/3DVa2OHmpY4icXFINHqiPD?si=z6nOxuIPQ9WjknvkIPxitQ) ## Vision and Strategies for Attracting & Driving AI Talents in High Growth // Panel // AIQCON ## AIQCON Panel Vision and Strategies for Attracting & Driving AI Talents in High Growth // Panel // AIQCON Quality AI needs quality people to build it. This panel covers strategies for managing AI and ML teams, focusing on talent acquisition, retention, and development. This panel covers strategies for managing AI and ML teams, emphasizing talent acquisition, retention, and development. Key points include fostering a learning culture through workshops and conferences, promoting diversity to avoid biases, and ensuring team goals align with company objectives. Addressing friction between technical and non-technical teams is vital, as is maintaining stimulating roles and growth opportunities to retain top talent. Want an episode on growing and leading AI teams? This is just the job! Video [https://home.mlops.community/home/videos/vision-and-strategies-for-attracting-and-driving-ai-talents-in-high-growth] || Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/episode/55PGGYj0ky72lEL6e02fHC?si=VReb0_FWTLOtO7wTJGE5Hw] || Apple [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vision-and-strategies-for-attracting-driving-ai/id1505372978?i=1000664839522] ## Job of the Week [https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3995864210/](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3995864210/) MLOps Package Template: Turbocharge the Creation of AI/ML Projects [https://home.mlops.community/home/blogs/mlops-package-template-turbocharge-the-creation-of-aiml-projects] Want help cooking up a robust MLOps project? The Cookiecutter MLOps Package is a versatile template designed to streamline MLOps project setup across various platforms like Kubernetes, Azure ML, and AWS SageMaker. It offers a structured project layout, automated testing with tools like Pytest and Mypy, dependency management with Poetry, and seamless MLflow integration. The template also includes Dockerized deployment, task automation via PyInvoke, and CI/CD setup with GitHub Actions. Have a read, then go and bake the world a better place. With thanks to Médéric Hurier for their contribution. [MLOps Package Template: Turbocharge the Creation of AI/ML Projects](https://home.mlops.community/home/blogs/mlops-package-template-turbocharge-the-creation-of-aiml-projects) ## Hidden Gems ## Summer Season 🌴 ## IRL Meetups Looks like everyone's away on holiday! But you can still find your local chapter here [https://mlops.community/meetups/] and stay up to date with their events. If there isn't one local enough and you want to start your own local chapter, reach out to us: binoy@mlops.community [here](https://mlops.community/meetups/) Interested in partnering with us? Get in touch: partners@mlops.community Thanks for reading. See you in Slack [https://go.mlops.community/slack], YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG6qpjVnBTTT8wLGBygANOQ?view_as=subscriber], and podcast [https://home.mlops.community/public/content/] land. Oh yeah, and we are also on X [https://twitter.com/mlopscommunity]. The MLOps Community newsletter is edited by Jessica Rudd [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmrudd/]. --- Source: https://aaif.live/newsletters/mlopscommunity/2024-08-15-ai-evolition-survival-of-the-fastest