Brad Topol

IBM Distinguished Engineer and Director of Open Technologies. Chief Developer Advocate. My tweets; my opinions

[Brad Topol @bradtopol]

A pre order link for our book, Hybrid Cloud Apps with #OpenShift and #Kubernetes, authored by myself and the amazing @mdelder and @kitch is now available!!! https://t.co/hTtTwlFpCz

[Rob Thomas @robdthomas]

https://t.co/W3T6tdf3ky

[Brad Topol @bradtopol]

Well @DanielKrook @stevebot it’s that time of year again when I hop on the @Canes bandwagon and brag about how good we are at hockey down in here in the South! Now what’s that icing rule mean again?! The tradition continues!

[Brad Topol @bradtopol]

Fantastic blog article from @psschwei on how to get frontier level results from small language models!

[Paul Schweigert @psschwei]

A blog on how to get frontier-level results from small language models by using Mellea and Granite Libraries do the heavy lifting: https://t.co/rfjBuJjfc8

[Brad Topol @bradtopol]

@jesseproudman I heard it’s because they couldn’t get the smell of hard liquor out of it! 😂

[Kimberly Craven @kimberlycraven]

Europe is no longer just asking for "support," but for a strategic industrial policy that integrates open source into the fabric of public and private sectors, shifting toward strategic autonomy. https://t.co/BSpn5v3EcB

[Brad Topol @bradtopol]

I am looking forward to giving my @AllThingsOpen conference presentation, A Tour of Open Source Foundation Models, Evaluation Frameworks, and Ecosystems at 3pm Today in room 301A. At this talk you will learn about the newly released Granite models, the LF AI & Data Foundation Model Openness Framework, Data Prep Kit, Docling, BeeAI, Mellea, and more!

[All Things Open @AllThingsOpen]

Brad Topol (@bradtopol), DE and Director of Open Technologies for @ibm, joins us on stage to share insights. Don't miss their session "A Tour of Open Source Foundation Models, Evaluation Frameworks, and Ecosystems" at #AllThingsOpen! https://t.co/fsE24oPEhn

[Rob Thomas @robdthomas]

Progress, not perfection. https://t.co/iYjgtK29Fv

[Brad Topol @bradtopol]

Enjoying Baby Beach Club in Cabo Rojo, Dominican Republic!

[Brad Topol @bradtopol]

Announcing llm-d! @RedHat, in collaboration with @IBMResearch, CoreWeave, Google Cloud, NVIDIA and joined by industry leaders AMD, Cisco, Hugging Face, Intel, Lambda and Mistral AI and university supporters at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago, announces the llm-d Community, Powering Distributed Gen AI Inference at Scale!
https://t.co/q8Xfgg32t6

[Brad Topol @bradtopol]

Well @stevebot @DanielKrook, it’s that time of year where I hop on the bandwagon and pretend to be a hockey fan! As usual you’ll have to remind me what icing is!!! #gocanes #bringontheleafs 😀

[Brad Topol @bradtopol]

@ScottAdamsSays Check out https://t.co/0EWkfyW0uQ

[toddlew @toddlew]

Another great article about @IBM donating 3 AI-related projects to @linuxfoundation. Thanks so much to the world-class team @thenewstack for covering the announcement onsite! https://t.co/Vwvtav4KrL @IBMResearch @BillHiggins @bradtopol @AllThingsOpen

[toddlew @toddlew]

@bradtopol @AllThingsOpen Thanks Brad! You and team played a huge part - truly appreciate it.

[Brad Topol @bradtopol]

The inaugural @AllThingsOpen AI conference was a huge success!!! We will all remember how awesome this first event was and I’m confident it has an exciting future ahead of it! Looking forward to next year!!! @toddlew

[toddlew @toddlew]

Great summary of this week's #atoai event from @FOSSForce. Thanks for the coverage and excellent reporting @BrideOfLinux. https://t.co/plAHthvnPp

[IBM @IBM]

IBM Granite 3.2 models are here & they’re delivering competitive results at a lower cost. Here's what's new:

🧠 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀
👁️ 𝗠𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹
⭐️ 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀

Learn more: https://t.co/BIliJbj2VR

[toddlew @toddlew]

Big news came out of the AI event - IBM is donating three projects / AI tools to @linuxfoundation. A very cool announcement. Read about it at @FOSSForce, who was onsite and covering the conference live - https://t.co/zFQUhVe1vG @ @. .

[This Dot Media @ThisDotMedia]

@bradtopol @AllThingsOpen Super interesting- Docling pulling data from PDFs is one of the useful LLM use cases for small businesses.