MLOps podcast #230 with Salman Avestimehr, CEO & Founder of FedML, FedML Nexus AI: Your Generative AI Platform at Scale.

A big thank you to FEDML for sponsoring this episode!

// Abstract

FedML is your generative AI platform at scale to enable developers and enterprises to build and commercialize their own generative AI applications easily, scalably, and economically. Its flagship product, FedML Nexus AI, provides unique features in enterprise AI platforms, model deployment, model serving, AI agent APIs, launching training/Inference jobs on serverless/decentralized GPU cloud, experimental tracking for distributed training, federated learning, security, and privacy.

// Bio

Salman is a professor, the inaugural director of the USC-Amazon Center for Secure and Trusted Machine Learning (Trusted AI), and the director of the Information Theory and Machine Learning (vITAL) research lab at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Computer Science Department of the University of Southern California. Salman is also the co-founder and CEO of FedML. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2008. Salman does research in the areas of information theory, decentralized and federated machine learning, secure and privacy-preserving learning, and computing.

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Timestamps:

[00:00] AI Quality: First in-person conference on June 25

[01:28] Salman's preferred coffee

[01:49] Takeaways

[03:33] Please like, share, leave a review, and subscribe to our MLOps channels!

[03:53] Challenges that inspired Salman's work

[06:20] Controlled ownership

[08:11] Dealing with data leakage and privacy problems

[10:45] In-house ML Model Deployment

[13:36] FEDML: Comprehensive Model Deployment

[17:27] Integrating FEDML with Kubernetes

[19:46] AI Evaluation Trends

[24:37] Enhancing NLP with ML

[25:48] FEDML: Canary, A/B, Confidence

[29:36] FEDML customers

[33:21] On-premise platform for secure data management