Ollama and Friends' Local and Open Source AI Developer Meetup at KubeCon Paris

KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 featured a dynamic meetup co-organized by Ollama and Dagger at Station F, attracting over 450 developers from the AI community. The event included lightning talks and demonstrations from notable figures such as Timothée Lacroix of MistralAI, Paige Bailey of Google DeepMind, and Solomon Hykes of Docker and Dagger, showcasing the latest in AI model function calling, lightweight models, and integration testing. Highlights included demos on leveraging Dagger for dynamic test pipeline assembly, using Test Containers for streamlined testing, and deploying AI workloads globally via Koyeb's platform. The meetup also explored fine-tuning open-source LLMs and integrating APIs with local LLMs, emphasizing the collaborative and innovative spirit of the open-source AI community in Paris.