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Ravin Kumar

@ravink.bsky.social

Building Bayesian generative models for 8+ years with PyMC crew. Now building Gemini/Gemma Google Labs and Deepmind. Before that rockets at SpaceX

132 Followers  |  450 Following  |  16 Posts  |  Joined: 10.05.2023  |  1.6

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Joining @deepmind.google.web.brid.gy as a Senior Research Engineer. Could not be more excited

19.01.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Wait till you try Mariner :)

19.12.2024 05:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Will be at @neuripsconf.bsky.social this week giving two talks on open models and using research to make great products like @notebooklm.bsky.social. Come say hi if you're around

07.12.2024 00:57 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yesterday I spoke for nearly 2 hours with @ravink.bsky.social (Google Labs, ex-SpaceX, Sweetgreen) in a sprawling conversation about everything generative AI and more.

Topics covered below πŸ‘‡

You can watch here: www.youtube.com/live/ffS6NWq...
Vanishing Gradients podcast out next week πŸ’«

22.11.2024 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Welcome β€” Bayesian Modeling and Computation in Python

Can I join the club? Here's some credentials

bayesiancomputationbook.com/welcome.html

28.11.2024 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You better be contributing to this trend

28.11.2024 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Building generative AI systems is NOT about choosing the right modelβ€”it’s about balancing technical depth with real-world impact. πŸ’‘

@ravink.bsky.social (Google Labs) shares insights from his journey at SpaceX, Sweetgreen, and beyond.

Full episode: vanishinggradients.fireside.fm/39

26.11.2024 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

1.5 hours of my life across multiple technology fronts, from SpaceX to generative models

24.11.2024 01:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Evaling this model before it was released was quite fun. Glad to see it made it to the top of the people's preference

18.11.2024 04:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Do you also think this could be to folks using replacing "high capability" models with smaller ones?

Last year I saw people use big models by default but now I'm seeing a greater nuance as folks pick models that fit the user case. e.g. a Gemini Flash or llama 8b

18.11.2024 04:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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From Models to Products: Bridging Research and Practice in Generative AI at Google Labs with Ravin Kumar Β· Luma Join Hugo Bowne-Anderson and Ravin Kumar for a live podcast recording as they discuss the rapidly changing world of generative AI, focusing on its practical…


Hugo is going to ask me hard, and fun, questions hit Thursday! Join in. lu.ma/tajz0lty?utm...

17.11.2024 23:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fine Tuning Fundamentals An overview of various fine tuning methodologies

A 10 minute overview of various ways to finetune LLM models

ravinkumar.com/GenAi...

This is the first of many updates this year, with more livestreams to come!

16.02.2024 05:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Next session of the Intuitive AI book club is on Sunday at 8AM pst. The focus will be model safety.

All the details are in the livestream description
youtube.com/live/A-Y...

06.10.2023 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Safety is as important as model capability progression. Here's a list of references I've found helpful which come from a range of perspectives.

ravinkumar.com/GenAi...

02.10.2023 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm going to be using this platform more if this test post works out well! Definitely time to move to a calmer portion of the internet.

29.09.2023 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I've heard good things about namecheap

04.09.2023 22:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't search on godaddy, they're notorious for doing this

04.09.2023 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hi all, I'll be sharing my applied "cool ways computers can do math" book club here as well. Next session is on production grade NN code and different NN architectures

https://community.intuitivebayes.com/t/session-3-more-complicated-nn-architectures-reading-list/1098/3

28.05.2023 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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