PyCon Lithuania 2024

Ines Montani

Ines Montani is a developer specializing in tools for AI and NLP technology. She’s the co-founder and CEO of Explosion and a core developer of spaCy, a popular open-source library for Natural Language Processing in Python, and Prodigy, a modern annotation tool for creating training data for machine learning models.


Twitter handle. For example (@handle-name)

_inesmontani

Notable open source projects that you contribute to. Add URLs, one per line.

https://github.com/explosion/spaCy


Session

04-05
16:30
60min
The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized: How open-source beats economies of scale, even for LLMs
Ines Montani

With the latest advancements in Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models (LLMs), and big companies like OpenAI dominating the space, many people wonder: Are we heading further into a black box era with larger and larger models, obscured behind APIs controlled by big tech monopolies? I don’t think so, and in this talk, I’ll show you why.

Keynote
Room 111