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LLM Fine-Tuning: A Guide for Engineering Teams in 2025
General-purpose large language models (LLMs) are built for broad artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The most popular...
Data Council 2025: The Data Science & Algorithms Track with Sean Taylor and Jesse Robbins
Heavybit is thrilled to be sponsoring Data Council 2025, and we invite you to join us in Oakland from Apr 22-24 to experience 3...
How Local-First Development Is Changing How We Make Software
What Local First Is, and Why It Matters Local-first development is a development ethos that keeps data and code on your device...
Navigating Markets in Open Source As Your Startup Matures
What to Consider About Market Forces in Open Source Why is Heavybit posting this extensive interview about how to navigate...
Regulation & Copyrights: Do They Work for AI & Open Source?
Emerging Questions in Global Regulation for AI and Open Source The 46th President of the United States issued an executive order...
Synthetic Data for AI: Purpose and Use Cases
What to Know About Synthetic Data for AI Programs For software developers, large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT can help...
How to Make Open-Source & Local LLMs Work in Practice
How to Get Open-Source LLMs Running Locally Heavybit has partnered with GenLab and the MLOps Community, which gathers thousands...
The Power User’s Guide to Open-Source Licenses
Licensing: A Key Trade-Off for Open Source Startups Why is Heavybit putting together this guide for open-source startup founders...
The Role of Synthetic Data in AI/ML Programs in Software
Why Synthetic Data Matters for Software Running AI in production requires a great deal of data to feed to models. Reddit is now...
How Startup Founders Should Think About Local-First Dev
What Local-First Dev Means for Startup Founders If you’re a startup founder, you’re always looking for some kind of edge–a way...
How to Start an Open-Source Project
How to Start an Open-Source Project Why is Heavybit posting a first-principles guide on how to create an open-source project?...
The Future of AI Code Generation
AI Code Generation Is Still in Early Innings AI code generation tools are still relatively new. The first tools like OpenAI...