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Taking back control of your AI development

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Taking back control of your AI development

Short presentation from the Feminist AI unconference at PyData London, covering the current focus of my work.

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June 06, 2026

Resources

The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized

https://speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/the-ai-revolution-will-not-be-monopolized-how-open-source-beats-economies-of-scale-even-for-llms

Are we heading further into a black box era with larger and larger models, obscured behind APIs controlled by big tech monopolies? I don’t think so, and in this talk, I’ll show you why.

Against LLM Maximalism

https://explosion.ai/blog/against-llm-maximalism

A lot of people are building truly new things with LLMs, like wild interactive fiction experiences that weren’t possible before. But if you’re working on the same sort of NLP problems that businesses have been trying to solve for a long time, what’s the best way to use them?

A practical guide to human-in-the-loop distillation

https://explosion.ai/blog/human-in-the-loop-distillation

This blog post presents practical solutions for using the latest state-of-the-art models in real-world applications and distilling their knowledge into smaller and faster components that you can run and maintain in-house.

Ellf: Your Virtual NLP Engineer (beta)

https://beta.ellf.ai

Read about and join the waitlist for Ellf, our new platform and virtual assistant for applied NLP.

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    /ellf-project Plan the project and break down business problem /ellf-annotate Define labels, components and annotate data /ellf-prodigy Implement workflows for the Prodigy annotation tool /ellf-patterns Interactively develop patterns and rule-based logic /ellf-train Train and export custom models and components /ellf-ask Ask specific questions and query the knowledge base skills platform
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    /ellf-project Plan the project and break down business problem /ellf-annotate Define labels, components and annotate data /ellf-prodigy Implement workflows for the Prodigy annotation tool /ellf-patterns Interactively develop patterns and rule-based logic /ellf-train Train and export custom models and components /ellf-ask Ask specific questions and query the knowledge base skills platform talk
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