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Transition to Open Source, the era of Specialised Intelligence
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Thursday, 26 November 2026
09:30–11:00
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'Gradient Descending' is a series of roundtables on AI: curated deep dives with technical builders. Past roundtables discussions covered RL Environments, Evals, Fine-Tuning, Agent Frameworks, Open Source Models, and Knowledge Graphs with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Scale AI and many more. We’re joined by Dimi Nikolaou (Field CTO @ Fireworks) for a deep dive into Transition to Open Source: The Era of Specialised Intelligence. We’ll get into: Why AI is moving from a small number of general-purpose frontier models towards increasingly specialised intelligence Where open-source models fit into this shift, and when they can outperform closed alternatives What it actually takes to transition from closed APIs to open-source models in production How specialised models change the trade-offs around performance, cost, control and infrastructure What the open-source AI stack could look like as models become more specialised As always, expect a deep technical discussion with fellow builders. Agenda: Arrivals: 08:30–09:00 Roundtable discussion: 09:00–10:00 See past roundtables here: https://www.akashbajwa.co/t/ai-roundtables I agree that photographs and/or video may be taken during the event and used by the hosts on social media and in future promotional materials.
Who's going
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- Where
- Zurich
- Who's behind it
- Anna Andersson
- Who's going
- ~50 expected
- Registration
- 🌍 Open to all
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