Julien Simon
Chief Evangelist, Arcee AI
Julien Simon, the Chief Evangelist at Arcee AI, is dedicated to helping enterprise clients develop top-notch and cost-efficient AI solutions using open-source small language models. With over 30 years of tech experience, including more than a decade in cloud computing and machine learning, Julien is committed to daily learning and is passionate about sharing his expertise through code demos, blogs, and YouTube videos. Before joining Arcee AI, he spent 3 years at Hugging Face as Chief Evangelist, and 6 at Amazon Web Services as Global AI Evangelist. He also served as a CTO at prominent startups.
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A.I. Summit
March, 14, 2025
13:45 -
14:45 EEST
60' MINS
How the Power of Generative AI is Shaping the Future of Tech
Small Language Models for the Enterprise
This session focuses on practical techniques for using small open-source language models (SLMs) in enterprise settings. We first highlight the limitations of proprietary models in terms of privacy, compliance, and cost. Then, we explore modern workflows for adapting SLMs with domain-specific pre-training, instruction fine-tuning, and alignment. Along the way, we will introduce and demonstrate open-source tools like DistillKit, Spectrum, and MergeKit, which implement advanced techniques that are critical in achieving task-specific accuracy while optimizing computational costs. Join us to learn how small, efficient, and adaptable models can transform your AI applications.
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