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DESCRIPTION:## Meet-up overview\nRecent requests by the Indian government 
 to avoid gold imports highlight how vulnerable India is to its dependence 
 on U.S. dollars for imports. We already depend on other countries for oil 
 and gold. Can we afford to also increase our dependence on foreign models?
  NVIDIA recently announced RTX Spark\, a one-of-a-kind reinvention of the 
 Windows laptop that supports 120B parameter local model inference. Is the 
 future local?\n\n_To answer some of these questions\, we can look at the e
 xperiences of practitioners who have shipped with Open Weights and/or loca
 l models._\n\n## Featured talks\n[Kanav Dwevedi (The FlyWheel) on _how far
  can you get without fine-tuning: quality as architecture_](http://has.gy/
 lNGf)\n_This talk is a deep dive on building architecture and guardrails a
 round self-hosted open-weight models (Gemma 4) to deliver quality. The Fly
 Wheel runs a production LLM helpline for Gujarati dairy farmers (phone-lin
 e and chat) answering questions on animal health\, breeding\, milk\, and s
 chemes\, on open-weight models we host ourselves._\n\n**More talks to be a
 nnounced soon.**\n\n## Who should attend\n- Engineers and developers build
 ing with open weight models\n- Data scientists who've fine-tuned or evalua
 ted open weight LLMs\n- Technical founders shipping AI products outside th
 e big labs API ecosystem\n- Practitioners working on Indian language model
 s or regional use cases\n- Anyone tired of vendor lock-in and looking for 
 real alternatives\n\n## Meet the editorial team\nCraig - AI Automations En
 gineer\, Freelance\nKiran - Founder\, Unravel.tech\nSitaram - Site Reliabi
 lity Engineer\, NVIDIA\n\n## How to attend\nThis is a free meet-up. Hit re
 gister to attend. \n\n## Thank you to our venue hosts \nThank you to Saran
 g Kulkarni from The Fifth Elephant Community and Darshana Radhakrishnan fo
 r supporting the meet-up by hosting it at Thoughtworks Pune. Thank you for
  helping bring the community together.\n\n## Need more info?\n☎️ Call:
  (91) 7676332020\n📧 Email: info@hasgeek.com
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