Episode 444

Ask Noah Show 444

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June 3rd, 2025

58 mins 36 secs

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Akash Srivastava & Mairin “Mo” Duffy join the Ask Noah Show to talk about Red Hat's approach to AI models.

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00:45 Intro

  • Talking about christmas gifts
  • Presentation season
  • Christmas time

03:30 Communicating Technical Things

  • Who are you talking to
  • Willingness to learn
  • Knowledge for Knowledge sake
  • Steve's process for teaching
  • We all compare to things we know
  • Building vocabulary
  • How to know an idea isn't landing
  • What do you aim for time wise

10:28 Red Hat Granite Models

  • Small Language Model
  • Language and Code Model
  • Indemnify the Model
  • What is an Open Source Model?
  • Models are not software
  • Weights
  • Why smaller models for enterprise use?
  • Tuning models
  • Why monolithic vs agentic AI?
  • Is it better to train your own model?
  • Beam search and inference time scaling
  • Why InstructLab?
  • InstructLab safety rails
  • HuggingFace, InstructLab, formats
  • AI in general use

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