Tony Salomone, Co-founder of Transformer Lab

January 24th, 2025 – 11am-12pm, EC4-2101A

In the past year, we have seen open source LLMs effectively catch up to, and in some cases overtake, the state-of-the art proprietary models that drive technology like ChatGPT. As models get smaller, smarter and more open, building with LLMs as part of a local tech stack is now limited only by the steep learning curve caused by a lack of quality tooling. We will discuss recent trends, and show how running, training and building with LLMs on your own machine is becoming easier thanks to modern tools like Transformer Lab.