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Round Table

Making Sense of Open Source AI Models

Erik Hermansen
Director of Engineering @ Bayer
September 10
10:00 - 10:45 am
Table 6

Summary

Open-weight LLMs and generative AI models provide unique advantages for enterprises, particularly around privacy, security, and version control. Some of these models can run on-device, enabling powerful new applications. Others allow you to take a model that another company invested millions in training and fine-tune it for your own needs. At the same time, these models bring distinct challenges—whether deployed on-device or in the cloud. Let’s share what we’ve learned and explore the possibilities together.

Speakers

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Erik Hermansen
Director of Engineering @ Bayer

Erik Hermansen is an engineering director at Bayer, and author of the Decent Apps open source tools for creating local-LLM-based web apps.