Wed, Sep 30, 2026
7:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)
Virtual (Zoom)
Free to join
Wed, Sep 30, 2026
7:00 PM UTC (30 minutes)
Virtual (Zoom)
Free to join
What you'll learn
How to evaluate open-weight models against your use case
Which models to use for multi-modal vs. text-only
Trade-offs of running models locally vs. hosted remotely
Why this topic matters
You'll learn from
Anny He
Software consultant, speaker, AI educator
Anny He is the founder of Allpaca AI study group, a remote community where engineers demo AI technology to each other, and writes about open-weight models and AI experiments at AI turtle.
Anny has held Staff Engineer roles at LegalZoom and Imply and served as a Developer Evangelist at Salesforce. She has also worked at an AI-native startup building production LLM features, where she experienced the growing token costs first-hand and learned about open weight models.
Anny is a frequent speaker on AI topics, including at First Robotics and UtahJS, and works as a software consultant helping teams build and ship products in the AI era.