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Building AI For All: Amjad Masad & Michele Catasta
Takeaway
Replit is bundling AI coding assistance plus inference (Model Farm) free to all users to ensure the next billion developers aren't gated from AI-enhanced programming.
Summary
- Amjad Masad (Replit CEO) traces programming UX history from punch cards through editors/IDEs/LSP-everywhere (2017-18 on Replit) and argues AI is the next 10-100x leap.
- Announces AI Ghostrider rolled out free to all millions of Replit users (including Android phones), called the biggest deployment of AI-enhanced coding.
- Announces Model Farm: 3-line inference access to Google Cloud LLMs (Llama and Stable Diffusion next) with a free tier through year-end for users to build AI products.
- Michele Catasta (head of AI) follows to discuss how Replit trains its own AI models for the platform.
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Original description
What is the future of Software Engineering in the age of AI? Amjad Masad, Founder & CEO of Replit, and Michele Catasta, head of AI at Replit, provide their take on this in this opening keynote presentation from the AI Engineer Summit 2023. Recorded live in San Francisco at the AI Engineer Summit 2023. See the full schedule of talks at https://ai.engineer/summit/schedule & join us at the AI Engineer World's Fair in 2024! Get your tickets today at https://ai.engineer/worlds-fair 00:00 Introduction - Amjad Masad 00:42 Historical perspective 02:22 How AI can change software 04:29 ⚠️📢 Announcing AI for all! 06:33 A tale of Code LLM & GPU-Poor - Michele Catasta 07:29 How Replit's code completion works 08:39 ⚠️📢 Announcing Replit's new model! 13:45 ⚠️📢 Announcing the new model is open source! 14:06 Model training 15:26 Model evaluation 17:31 Model data & training 18:45 Model evaluation 19:51 Model inference 22:10 Why open source? 23:10: Glaive AI Collaboration 23:50 Morph Labs Collaboration 24:42: Perplexity Collaboration