Ian Coe from Tonic.ai: synthetic data, AI training, and enterprise fine-tuning

In this episode, Ian Coe, cofounder and CEO of Tonic.ai, joins us at Heavybit DevGuild. Ian explains how Tonic started by helping developers create safe, realistic data for testing and development, and how that has expanded into AI model training, de-identification, and synthetic datasets for reinforcement learning. We talk about structured vs unstructured data, healthcare and financial services use cases, Fabricate, Textual, fine-tuning, RL environments, and why enterprises are becoming more interested in training models on their own data. Links: • Ian Coe’s LinkedIn • Tonic.ai • Tonic Fabricate • Tonic Textual • Tonic blog 00:00 Intro 00:30 What Tonic.ai does 01:30 Synthetic data for software...