Join us at the Capital Factory for Food, Drinks, and Kubernetes on January 23, 2025!🎉

You asked, and we listened!!

Everyone is invited to join! We hope to bring the latest about the Kubernetes and CNCF projects. 

We have a special guest, JJ Asghar, from IBM Cloud. JJ will go over the InstructLab, a Community-based Open Source LLM.

We will be meeting at Capital Factory! The address is 701 Brazos St, Austin, TX 78701. When arriving at the building, the elevators are "unlocked" to go to this floor after 5:45 pm.

Park in the Onmi garage for just $8.00 (validation parking tickets will be distributed but in limited numbers)! 

Street parking will still be an option. More information on parking here: https://www.capitalfactory.com/parking/

Thank you to Capital Factory for sponsoring Kubernetes Austin. Capital Factory is the center of gravity for entrepreneurs in Texas. They meet the best entrepreneurs in Texas and introduce them to their first investors, employees, mentors, and customers. To sign up for a Capital Factory membership, click here.

InstructLab: A Community-based Open Source LLM

What if we told you how we're distributing AI models is fundamentally broken? Most people out there leverage the ChatGPTs of the world and just ask it for some simple tasks leveraging Prompt Engineering. That's all well and good, but when you want to bring AI into your business processes, do you want to give your secret sauce to another company to train their models? Probably not.

Built by IBM and Red Hat, InstructLab is an open source project that lets you control your AI by creating easy-to-use tuning for a base model. Today, we’ll talk about what it can do for you as an engineer and how much it can do to improve your business processes. If you’re thinking that you need a trusted AI system that’s truly open source and lets you track back what is put into the tuned data set, we’ve got you covered.

This talk will prepare you to try it out and learn to use it in 45 minutes or less.

It keeps you in complete control of your AI story code and makes sure your company knowledge is in a place that you find secure. Join us to gain transparency for the future of open source AI.