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Open Source AI Demo Night

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Dave NielsenDave Nielsen

On August 8th, The AI Alliance, in collaboration with Cerebral Valley and Ollama, hosted Open Source AI Demo Night in San Francisco, bringing together more than 200+ developers and innovators to showcase and celebrate the latest advances in open-source AI. There were 7 demo teams and a panel discussion on why open technologies and communities are essential to driving innovation in California

The demo teams included: 

 

Demo Night also featured a panel discussion “AI in the Era of Open Innovation,” moderated by CEO & Founder Aitomatic Christopher Nguyen, and featured Matt White, Executive Director of PyTorch Foundation and General Manager of AI, Linux Foundation; Charles Xie, CEO of Zilliz; and Sharon Zhou, CEO of Lamini. The panelists underscored the importance of having access to state of the art open-source AI models in building their company by fine-tuning the models to their respective company needs. Moreover, the panelists opposed California Senate Bill 1047, highlighting that it would stifle open-source AI development and have a downstream chilling effect on AI investment and expansion. 

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