Skyler Thomas @skythomas
Passion for #AIops #QuantifiedSelf #DeepLearning Co-founder/CTO Cake AI. HPE, MAPR, IBM alumni. All opinions my own Brooklyn, NY Joined May 2008-
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Such a great discussion! Thanks for the wonderful questions
Invited to speak on a panel discussing AI in Private Markets hosted by UNC’s Institute for Private Capital and Fidelity in Boston next week. uncipc.org/index.php/even… So excited to hear from some of the other speakers!
New case study: Learn how Cake “cut a year off the product development lifecycle” for a leading R&D platform in the materials science industry. cake.ai/blog/case-stud…
DeepSeek's launch represented more than an incremental improvement - it unlocked entirely new possibilities. Check out our latest post on how DeepSeek provides the missing piece in the architectural puzzle for truly real-time RAG applications: cake.ai/blog/how-deeps…
I have a new post up on Deepseek and Real-Time Rag... cake.ai/blog/how-deeps…
[New Case Study] How Ping Manages MLOps with Cake Ping, a data intelligence company, uses Cake to process unstructured data for more accurate property insurance quotes. Learn how their small team saved 3 FTE engineers and doubled operational efficiency: cake.ai/blog/ping-data…
New on the blog, @skythomas outlines the 6 principles of Cake’s platform that drive our goal - to bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI and those who stand to gain the most from it. cake.ai/blog/unlocking…
Wrote a new blog post on the architecture of Cake's platform. Thanks! cake.ai/blog/cake-plat…
Excited to lead Cake AI’s $13MM seed and partner with @MishaHerscu as he builds the RedHat of AI! @GradientVC @WKortschak @PrimaryVC
Excited to lead Cake AI’s $13MM seed and partner with @MishaHerscu as he builds the RedHat of AI! @GradientVC @WKortschak @PrimaryVC
Google’s Gradient backs Cake, a managed open-source AI infrastructure platform tcrn.ch/4fWmVXJ
Cake is officially out of stealth! We just announced our $13 million seed led by Google's @GradientVC Thank you @darian314 and @vigsachi ! Thank you @PrimaryVC and @BSchech for believing in us early! And thank you to my rockstar co-founder @MishaHerscu. techcrunch.com/2024/12/04/goo…
Claude 3 takes on the Tokenization book chapter challenge :) context: Definitely looks quite nice, stylistically! If you look closer there are a number of subtle issues / hallucinations. One example there is a claim that "hello world" tokenizes into 3…
Claude 3 takes on the Tokenization book chapter challenge :) context: Definitely looks quite nice, stylistically! If you look closer there are a number of subtle issues / hallucinations. One example there is a claim that "hello world" tokenizes into 3…
Modeling the world for action by generating pixel is as wasteful and doomed to failure as the largely-abandoned idea of "analysis by synthesis". Decades ago, there was a big debate in ML about the relative advantages of generative methods vs discriminative methods for…
- Everyone's talking about AI - Everyone's asking for stuff to happen - Everyone's investigating it But VERY few are actually getting any real value out of it right now. The next few years are going to be incredible.
Pandas is a powerful data analysis and manipulation library for Python! NVIDIA just made Pandas 150x faster with zero code changes🔥 All you have to add is just a couple of lines of code: %load_ext cudf.pandas import pandas as pd Thread🧵👇
I touched on the idea of sleeper agent LLMs at the end of my recent video, as a likely major security challenge for LLMs (perhaps more devious than prompt injection). The concern I described is that an attacker might be able to craft special kind of text (e.g. with a trigger…
I touched on the idea of sleeper agent LLMs at the end of my recent video, as a likely major security challenge for LLMs (perhaps more devious than prompt injection). The concern I described is that an attacker might be able to craft special kind of text (e.g. with a trigger…
Microsoft breaks the SOTA for embedding models! Using quick & simple training run synthetic data. --- Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2401.00368… Model: huggingface.co/intfloat/e5-mi… Dataset (by @andersonbcdefg): huggingface.co/datasets/ander… --- Semantic search models are very hard to get "right".…
Recent research in open-source LLMs has made paid APIs much less enticing (though not hosting your own model is still nice). So much is possible if we are willing to fine-tune on some task-specific data! Here are a few examples to support my point... 🧵[1/6]
Today, I'm announcing Alexandria, an open-source initiative to embed the internet. To start, we're releasing the embeddings for every research paper on the Arxiv. That's over 4m items, 600m tokens, and 3.07 billion vector dimensions. We're not stopping here.

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