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Michael Weiss

Michael Weiss

Co-founder of Ai4, North America's largest AI industry conference, which grew from 300 attendees in 2018 to 8,000+ global participants.

Jul 15, 2026

3:48
Tell us a little bit about what this year's show will hold for participants.
3:55
Yeah, so if you look back to 2018 when we started, You know, all the models being trained were being trained in-house on proprietary data.
4:07
You know, what that means is just like the organizations coming, whether it was a big bank, a big hospital, pharma company, government agency, whatever.
4:13
You know, they were all doing these custom in-house models on relatively small amounts of data with relatively small amounts of compute.
4:21
And then, yeah, fast forward to, you know, winter, December, I think it was, 2022, and CheckGPT is released.
4:29
And, you know, all that really did was it dazzled people with the power of these, you know, foundation models, these models that are, you know, trained by model-specific companies, which OpenAI and Anthropic are.
4:44
They're providing models as a service.

6 MINS LATER

10:29
Go into a little bit about that, explaining what that should do to our economy and how it should impact it with regard to the cost of intelligence and this seemingly endless stream of demand for it.

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