Name: AI Meetup (May) - GenAI, LLMs and Agent
Start: 2025-05-13T17:30:00+10:00
End: 2025-05-13T20:30:00+10:00
Location: Natural Velocity Innovation Centre

**Important: register at the [AICamp](https://www.aicamp.ai/event/eventdetails/W2025051221) website for admission.**

**Description:**
Welcome to the GenAI meetup in Melbourne, in collaboration with Natural Velocity. Join us for deep dive tech talks on AI, Generative AI, LLMs, ML, and Data, networking with speakers & fellow developers.

**Agenda:**

* 5:30pm\~6:00pm: Checkin and networking
* 6:00pm\~7:30pm: Tech talks and Q&A
* 7:30pm: Open discussion & Mixer
*

**Tech Talk: Rapid Attention Distillation to Linear Attention Decoder at Scale**
**Speaker:** Harrison Vanderbyl (Featherless AI)
**Abstract:** Architecture innovation with language models is normally thought to be an incredibly expensive, time consuming process. To train a 70B model from scratch can require many millions of dollars, and many months, to accomplish. Our team at Featherless.ai, working with the RWKV foundation and open source community, have released a method to convert existing models to new architectures with only a tiny fraction of the time and money normally required. This opens up the gates to model architecture innovation that allows us to completely sidestep the costs of proving and scaling new architectures.

**Topics/Speakers:**
Stay tuned as we are updating speakers and schedules. If you have a keen interest in speaking to our community, we invite you to submit topics for consideration: [Submit Topics](https://forms.gle/JkMt91CZRtoJBSFUA)

**Sponsors:**
We are actively seeking sponsors to support our community. Whether it is by offering venue spaces, providing food/drink, or cash sponsorship. Sponsors will not only speak at the meetups, receive prominent recognition, and but also exposure to our extensive membership base of 3,000+ AI developers in Melbourne and 500K+ worldwide.

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Melbourne AI Developers Group

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