AI Engineering: Inference Optimisation with Crusoe

​'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.

​For this session, we’re joined by Erwan Menard, SVP at Crusoe. The discussion will focus on training and inference optimisation. Crusoe is a neocloud backed by Founders Fund, Bain Capital Ventures, and more, offering Managed Inference via Crusoe Cloud.

​Crusoe's managed inference offering is 9.9x faster on Time To First Token and 5x higher throughput than vLLM. Crusoe also has a serverless fine-tuning offering in private preview.

​This session is for infrastructure engineers and AI engineers looking to learn how to optimise inference to power their products.

​Expect an honest discussion with a curated group of founders and operators building in AI.

​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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