Transition to Open Source, the era of Specialised Intelligence

​'Gradient Descending' is a series of roundtables on AI: curated deep dives with technical builders. Past roundtables discussions covered RL Environments, Evals, Fine-Tuning, Agent Frameworks, Open Source Models, and Knowledge Graphs with companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Scale AI and many more.

​We’re joined by Dimi Nikolaou (Field CTO @ Fireworks) for a deep dive into Transition to Open Source: The Era of Specialised Intelligence.

​We’ll get into:

• ​Why AI is moving from a small number of general-purpose frontier models towards increasingly specialised intelligence

• ​Where open-source models fit into this shift, and when they can outperform closed alternatives

• ​What it actually takes to transition from closed APIs to open-source models in production

• ​How specialised models change the trade-offs around performance, cost, control and infrastructure

• ​What the open-source AI stack could look like as models become more specialised

​As always, expect a deep technical discussion with fellow builders.

​Agenda:

​Arrivals: 08:30–09:00
Roundtable discussion: 09:00–10:00

​See past roundtables here:
https://www.akashbajwa.co/t/ai-roundtables

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