Leveraging Hugging Face for complex generative AI use cases
jeffboudier, wassemgtk
In this conversation, Jeff Boudier asks Waseem Alshikh, Co-founder and CTO of Writer, about their journey from a Hugging Face user, to a customer and now an open source model contributor.

- why was Writer started?
- what are the biggest misconceptions in Generative AI today?
- why is Writer now contributing open source models?
- what has been the value of the Hugging Face Expert Acceleration Program service for Writer?
- how it Writer approaching production on CPU and GPU to serve LLMs at scale?
- how important is efficiency and using CPUs for production?

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