Fast Inference with Hassan El Mghari

Today we have Hassan back on the show. Hassan was one of our first guests for Huddle when he was working at Vercel, but since then, he's joined Together AI, one of the hottest companies in the world. They just raised a massive series B round. Hassan joins us to talk about Together AI, inference optimization and building AI applications. We touch on a bunch of topics like customer uses of AI, best practices for building apps, and what's next for Together AI. Timestamps 01:42 Opportunity at Together AI 04:26 Together raised a big round 06:06 Vision Behind Together AI 08:32 Problems in running Open Source Models 11:40 Speed For Inference 14:24 Fine Tuning 19:23 One or Two Models or a Combination of them 21:32 Serverless 22:21 Cold Start issues? 27:46 How much data do you need? 30:00 Balancing Reliability and Cost 34:07 How customers are using Together 42:36 Agent Recipes 47:03 Typical Mistakes buiilding AI apps