Gideon Mendels (Github: @gidim) is the co-founder and CEO of Comet, the end-to-end model evaluation platform for AI developers. Among the tools in the Comet ecosystem is Opik, an open-source solution for evaluating, testing and monitoring LLM applications. Opik allows users to log traces and spans, define and compute evaluation metrics, score LLM outputs, compare performance across app versions, and more. As a true open-source project, its full featureset is available for use by anyone, completely free.

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In this episode we discuss:

How Opik’s popularity blew up beyond the Comet team’s expectations
Why CI/CD is especially important in an end-to-end platform
Gideon’s “severe allergy” to “fake open-source” offerings
Why the number of dedicated machine learning engineers is actually going down
Eric’s thoughts on what it means for venture capital to invest in the LLM space

Links:

Opik
Comet