I was interviewed for a German article on it-daily about efficient AI development in industry, the role of open source, and using Generative AI to create systems and data for smaller models. Thanks Silvia for the feature!

https://www.it-daily.net/it-management/ki/souverane-ki-systeme

What a great meetup! Thanks to everyone who came by yesterday for an evening of real-world AI and bullshit-free strategies for building LLM applications.

Recap and highlights: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7340659326027489281/

I'm back from a busy four days in London! 💜 I had a great time at #PyData London and you can read my recap and highlights here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7337737641745924096/

#NLP expert Ines is back to speak at #PyData London. Make sure you join the #FeministAI party after her talk.

@ines

Hi Berlin people! Hugo is in town and we're celebrating by hosting a meetup together 🎉 This one is all about creating and building with AI, and we'll also open the floor for lightning talks showcasing your projects and cool things people have built. If you're around, come hang out with us!

📆 June 16, 18:00
📍 Native Instruments HQ (Kreuzberg)
🎟️ Registration & details: https://lu.ma/d53y9p2u?tk=D4fPo8

Here are the slides for my talk "Conquering PDFs: document understanding beyond plain text": https://speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/conquering-pdfs-document-understanding-beyond-plain-text

Another great @pyconde is over and I'm exhausted but happy, and feel very inspired! ⚡

Here are my personal highlights: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7321822781216624640/

In Darmstadt for @pyconde! 🐍✨

Tomorrow I'll be speaking about conquering PDFs and document understanding beyond plain text, and Thursday I'm joining the fireside chat panel on enterprise AI and open source. And I'll be around for the Feminist AI LAN Party open hours to hack LLMs. See you there!

Feminist AI is coming to @pyconde! If you're around, you can drop by at any time during the open hours and join us for workshops on hacking LLMs and data development, or contribute to our DIY PyCon zine ⚡

Details & open hours: https://feministai.party/events/2025-04-23

Enjoying my train ride on the way to Münster for data:unplugged!

Tomorrow I'll be speaking about real-world use cases of AI, how to navigate black-box models and why open source means that nobody can monopolize AI (unless we let them) ✊

I will be around all day, so if you're attending, come and say hi!

My friend Hugo launched a new course on Building LLM Applications for Data Scientists and Software Engineers! I'll be joining for a guest lecture on human-in-the-loop development and distillation workflows.

You'll learn how to build GenAI-powered software reliably & from first principles (love this!), and how to avoid the prototype plateau & go all the way to production.

You can get 10% off with my link + lots of perks, including Prodigy to build fully custom models ✨

https://maven.com/hugo-stefan/building-llm-apps-ds-and-swe-from-first-principles?promoCode=inesfriends

Announcing a new event initiative: Feminist AI LAN Party! Katharine and I did a pilot event last year and we're now taking it to @pyconde.

We've also open-sourced event kits to make it easy to host your own event, including:

💣 hacking LLMs
📑 data development
✂️ zine making

https://feministai.party

I don't normally write advice columns but this question I got deserved its own post: With all the hype around Generative AI, how can you, as a developer, communicate the nuances and advocate for new and modular solutions that are better, easier and cheaper?

https://explosion.ai/blog/modular-nlp-generative-ai

So many good events coming up this season. Here's my schedule – hope to see you there!

Apr 10: data:unplugged (Münster)
Apr 23: @pyconde (Darmstadt)
May 31: @pycon (Bologna)
Jun 5: ECONDAT (London)
Jun 7-8: PyData (London)

📆 Details: https://explosion.ai/events

TIL: Incorrect music metadata is a huge problem and is causing artists to lose millions in royalties. This disproportionaly affects independent musicians. But structured NLP can help!

https://explosion.ai/blog/love-without-sound-nlp-music-industry

New case study: How Love Without Sound built innovative AI-powered tools for the music industry and law firms, and helped publishers recover hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue for artists.

https://explosion.ai/blog/love-without-sound-nlp-music-industry

Out now: Prodigy v1.18! New features include:

✍️ edit text during span annotation
💬 fully custom UI translations
🎛️ new JavaScript events and functions
✅ various small fixes and docs

More details: https://prodi.gy/docs/changelog

These are the kinds of NLP stories I love! TFW you "accidentally" train a great 2 MB (!) task-specific model 🤯 @strickvl

Look what arrived in the mail today! 🎉

This is the second edition of "Mastering spaCy" by Duygu Altinok and Déborah Mesquita, featuring how to build structured NLP solutions with custom components, and updated content on using models powered by LLMs.

You can get it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DVBTX2BL

Now that @honnibal is live-streaming spaCy development (check it out if you haven't!) I tidied up our YouTube and added our latest talks & interviews.

I forgot how much content there is and it makes me want to get back into doing videos when I have time ✨

https://youtube.com/c/ExplosionAI