Hacking AI Accelerators: Maxxing Tokens & Outcomes with Rob Ferguson @ Fireworks
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Hacking AI Accelerators: Maxxing Tokens & Outcomes with Rob Ferguson @ Fireworks

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Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82308186562

Talk #0: Introductions and Meetup Updates
by Chris Fregly and Antje Barth

Talk #1: Performance and Token Maxxing for AI Startup Founders - Hacking AI Accelerator Programs by Rob Ferguson, VP of Technical & Strategy @ Fireworks.ai (former Head of AI Accelerators @ AWS and Azure)
In this talk, Rob will describe how the role of the AI startup founder has changed over the last year. He'll also describe ways to hack the AI accelerator programs - as well as maximize token usage. Rob developed the AI accelerator programs at both AWS and Azure - and has a unique perspective on how these programs operate - and how to extract the highest and best outcomes from these programs.

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82308186562

Related Links
Github Repo: http://github.com/cfregly/ai-performance-engineering/
O'Reilly Book: https://www.amazon.com/Systems-Performance-Engineering-Optimizing-Algorithms/dp/B0F47689K8/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AIPerformanceEngineering
Generative AI Free Course on DeepLearning.ai: https://bit.ly/gllmT

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