PyCon AU 2025

My AI is slow. Make it faster!
2025-09-13 , Ballroom 1

If there's anything that AI is known for, it's not speed. Other than throw more GPU's at the problem, what can you do to make AI models run faster? In this talk, you'll learn about AI model performance, what impacts it and what you can do to improve it.


This talk is for developers working with or building AI models. In this talk, you'll learn about what impacts the performance of AI and how to think about your requirements for speed versus quality.
After attending this talk, you'll know how to benchmark AI models and understand more about configuring models and picking the right model for the job.
This talk is not target at AI/ML experts, we will cover some newer technical concepts like semantic model routing but it will be fully explained.

Anthony is from Sydney, Australia and is a contributor to many open-source communities. Running and contributing to several popular open-source tools for DevOps, Security, Automation and Code Quality. He has been recognized for his contribution to open source, including as Fellow of the Python Software Foundation and member of the Apache Software Foundation. Anthony runs a Python blog and YouTube channel and wrote the book "CPython Internals"