OnPoint with Mike Downing

Episode 2 of the OnPoint: The Data Podcast from Amarti podcast, hosted by amarti, titled "OnPoint with Mike Downing" was published on October 29, 2025 and runs 33 minutes.

October 29, 2025 ·33m · OnPoint: The Data Podcast from Amarti

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Summary

OnPoint is back for a brand new season of insightful chats and honest conversations from the world of data. This week, Ben and Am are joined by Mike Downing, Chief Information Officer at WPA Health Insurance. On the show this week: - How WPA developed their own Small Language Models in-house - What this means in terms of being in control and developing feature-rich language models - A look ahead about what’s coming up in AI adoption and bespoke AI trends - And much, much more! If you’d like...

Episode Description

OnPoint is back for a brand new season of insightful chats and honest conversations from the world of data.

This week, Ben and Am are joined by Mike Downing, Chief Information Officer at WPA Health Insurance.

On the show this week:

- How WPA developed their own Small Language Models in-house

- What this means in terms of being in control and developing feature-rich language models

- A look ahead about what’s coming up in AI adoption and bespoke AI trends

- And much, much more!

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OnPoint is a podcast dedicated to discussing all things data with a variety of industry leaders, hosted by Ben Alexander (co-founder of amarti) and Amardeep Sirha (Head of Data and co-founder of amarti).