Patrick Wendell, Co-founder and VP of Engineering on Building Production-Quality AI Systems
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Speakers: Patrick Wendell, Co-founder and VP of Engineering, Databricks Kasey Uhlenhuth, Staff Product Manager, Databricks At the Data and AI Summit, we announced several new capabilities that make Databricks Mosaic AI the best platform for building production-quality AI systems. These features are based on our experience working with thousands of companies to put AI-powered applications into production. Announcements include support for fine-tuning foundation models, an enterprise catalog for AI tools, a new SDK for building, deploying, and evaluating AI Agents, and a unified AI gateway for governing deployed AI services. Sessions from Data + AI Summit are available on-demand at https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit
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