Foundation Models: Getting Started with watsonx and Caikit

Join the PyData NYC community on July 12, 2023 6:30 PM at IBM NYC to learn how to use Foundation Models. You will hear from Antoni Viros-i-Martin, Research Scientist, IBM Research and Jigisha Mavani, Security Product, IBM Software.

(In-person RSVP is closed now - if you’re still interested, please register for this virtual live stream here)

Agenda

• watsonx Introduction
• This talk will provide an overview of watsonx.ai including how to train and tune a model with PyTorch
• Caikit Overview (https://github.com/caikit/caikit)
• Caikit Open Source AI Toolkit that enables users to manage models through a set of developer friendly APIs. It provides a consistent format for creating and using AI models against a wide variety of data domains and tasks.
• We'll step you through how to set up Caikit in your applications to serve a Hugging Face model for inference.
• Bring your laptops.

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RSVP is required, please note that walk-ins will not be accepted.
Doors @ 6:00 pm
Event @ 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Catering (food & drinks) sponsored by IBM.
Thank you, IBM!
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