IBM Distinguished Engineer and Director of Open Technologies. Chief Developer Advocate. My tweets; my opinions
RTP, NC
Joined January 2013
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A pre order link for our book, Hybrid Cloud Apps with #OpenShift and #Kubernetes, authored by myself and the amazing @mdelder and @kitch is now available!!! amazon.com/Hybrid-Cloud-Apps…
Well @DanielKrook @stevebot it’s that time of year again when I hop on the @Canes bandwagon and brag about how good we are at hockey down in here in the South! Now what’s that icing rule mean again?! The tradition continues!
Fantastic blog article from @psschwei on how to get frontier level results from small language models!
A blog on how to get frontier-level results from small language models by using Mellea and Granite Libraries do the heavy lifting: mellea.ai/blogs/small-models…
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Europe is no longer just asking for "support," but for a strategic industrial policy that integrates open source into the fabric of public and private sectors, shifting toward strategic autonomy. sprou.tt/1VmJxvdtpQR
I am looking forward to giving my @AllThingsOpen conference presentation, A Tour of Open Source Foundation Models, Evaluation Frameworks, and Ecosystems at 3pm Today in room 301A. At this talk you will learn about the newly released Granite models, the LF AI & Data Foundation Model Openness Framework, Data Prep Kit, Docling, BeeAI, Mellea, and more! – at Raleigh, NC
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Brad Topol (@bradtopol), DE and Director of Open Technologies for @ibm, joins us on stage to share insights. Don't miss their session "A Tour of Open Source Foundation Models, Evaluation Frameworks, and Ecosystems" at #AllThingsOpen! 2025.allthingsopen.org/sessi…
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Progress, not perfection. fortune.com/article/ibm-ai-a…
Announcing llm-d! @RedHat, in collaboration with @IBMResearch, CoreWeave, Google Cloud, NVIDIA and joined by industry leaders AMD, Cisco, Hugging Face, Intel, Lambda and Mistral AI and university supporters at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago, announces the llm-d Community, Powering Distributed Gen AI Inference at Scale!
businesswire.com/news/home/2… – at Curaçao
Well @stevebot @DanielKrook, it’s that time of year where I hop on the bandwagon and pretend to be a hockey fan! As usual you’ll have to remind me what icing is!!! #gocanes #bringontheleafs 😀 – at Cary, NC
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Another great article about @IBM donating 3 AI-related projects to @linuxfoundation. Thanks so much to the world-class team @thenewstack for covering the announcement onsite! tinyurl.com/5n8fah7y @IBMResearch @BillHiggins @bradtopol @AllThingsOpen
The inaugural @AllThingsOpen AI conference was a huge success!!! We will all remember how awesome this first event was and I’m confident it has an exciting future ahead of it! Looking forward to next year!!! @toddlew – at Cary, NC
Great summary of this week's #atoai event from @FOSSForce. Thanks for the coverage and excellent reporting @BrideOfLinux. tinyurl.com/mu457ac5
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IBM Granite 3.2 models are here & they’re delivering competitive results at a lower cost. Here's what's new:
🧠 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀
👁️ 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹
⭐️ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀
Learn more: ibm.co/3FGeTFm
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Big news came out of the AI event - IBM is donating three projects / AI tools to @linuxfoundation. A very cool announcement. Read about it at @FOSSForce, who was onsite and covering the conference live - tinyurl.com/26jbbp7v @ @. .
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Super interesting- Docling pulling data from PDFs is one of the useful LLM use cases for small businesses.
At the @AllThingsOpen AI Conference Keynote, IBM’s own Sriram Raghavan described IBM’s commitment to open source and also announced that IBM will be contributing 3 popular open source projects to the Linux Foundation: Docling, Data Prep Kit and BeeAI. More details at ibm.com/new/announcements/ib… – at Durham, NC
We had some fantastic crowds at the @IBM Granite Workshop lounge at @AllThingsOpen AI Conference where @jjasghar is doing live coding with Granite, IBM’s open source family of LLMs – at Durham, NC
