Solmaz Shahalizadeh (@solmaz_sh) 's Twitter Profile
Solmaz Shahalizadeh

@solmaz_sh

Data Advisor/Investor, Founding Partner @backboneangels , ex VP, Head of Data Science & Engineering @Shopify, @morganstanley @McGillU. She/her.

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Solmaz Shahalizadeh (@solmaz_sh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congrats to the Ultravox AI team! Their product is now available to everyone and it's REALLY easy (and fun) to get started, give it a try: fixie.ai I'm so curious to see all the agents everyone will build and the marketplace forming inside the platform!

Gadget (@gadget_dev) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Don't miss this today! Harry Brundage is teaching you how to build AI-powered applications using LLMs, LangChain and vector data.๐Ÿค– Register for free to join at 11.00 EDT, or to get the video.๐Ÿ‘‡

Select Star (@selectstarhq) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Join Shinji Kim and Solmaz Shahalizadeh virtually or in-person at DataConnect Conference for their fireside chat about Building Effective Data Products in the #ai era. ๐Ÿค– dataconnectconf.com/sessions/indusโ€ฆ

Join <a href="/shinjikim/">Shinji Kim</a> and <a href="/solmaz_sh/">Solmaz Shahalizadeh</a> virtually or in-person at <a href="/DataConnectConf/">DataConnect Conference</a> for their fireside chat about Building Effective Data Products in the #ai era. ๐Ÿค–

dataconnectconf.com/sessions/indusโ€ฆ
Yann LeCun (@ylecun) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is huge: Llama-v2 is open source, with a license that authorizes commercial use! This is going to change the landscape of the LLM market. Llama-v2 is available on Microsoft Azure and will be available on AWS, Hugging Face and other providers Pretrained and fine-tuned

Solmaz Shahalizadeh (@solmaz_sh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Congrats to Modal on their raise, general availability & an amazing product that users love. A big shout out to Erik Bernhardsson's investor updates: they are some of the most succinct yet informative and actionable emails, and I truly look forward to reading them every month.

Shreya Shankar (@sh_reya) 's Twitter Profile Photo

if I could only have one criteria for ML eng or applied AI hiring it would be: when asked about a recent modeling project, did the candidate spend enough time talking about looking at the data & model predictions

Bessemer (@bessemervp) 's Twitter Profile Photo

๐—™๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ โ€” ๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฎ ๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€? ๐Ÿ“ˆ Shopify's former Head of Data Solmaz Shahalizadeh answers essential questions about hiring, structuring, and measuring the impact of data teams. Dive into our latest guide โžก๏ธ

๐—™๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ โ€” ๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฎ ๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐—ฏ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€? ๐Ÿ“ˆ

<a href="/Shopify/">Shopify</a>'s former Head of Data <a href="/solmaz_sh/">Solmaz Shahalizadeh</a> answers essential questions about hiring, structuring, and measuring the impact of data teams. 

Dive into our latest guide โžก๏ธ
Solmaz Shahalizadeh (@solmaz_sh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Your data strategy is intrinsic to innovation and how your startup can successfully scale. On Atlas Bessemer, I share what founders need to know about hiring, structuring, and measuring the impact of data teams. I'd love to know your thoughts! bvp.com/atlas/what-fouโ€ฆ

Yael Schiff (@yael_schiff) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How can startups leverage a data strategy to innovate and scale successfully? On Atlas Bessemer, Solmaz Shahalizadeh former Head of Data at Shopify shares what founders need to know about hiring, structuring, and measuring the impact of data teams. bvp.com/atlas/what-fouโ€ฆ

Ethan Kurzweil (@ethankurz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Some sharp thinking from our Operating Advisor Solmaz Shahalizadeh on building a high performing data team: bvp.com/atlas/what-fouโ€ฆ - includes hiring, structuring, measuring, analyzing - the full gamut! Thanks Solmaz.

Modal (@modal_labs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Modal + Ramp ๐Ÿงพ๐Ÿ’› Learn how Ramp used Modal to tailor their LLM fine-tuning workflows, driving down the volume of receipts requiring manual intervention by 34% ๐Ÿ“‰ modal.com/blog/ramp-caseโ€ฆ

Yael Schiff (@yael_schiff) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The emergence of the 'data shift right' phenomenon underscores the imperative to democratize data, empowering professionals across diverse functions to become self-sufficient. Join Amit Karp Lindsey Li and me as we dive deeper into these trends ๐Ÿ‘‡

Solmaz Shahalizadeh (@solmaz_sh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Haven't been this excited for a course in a long time: best in class instructors, guest speakers, credits and community ๐Ÿ‘

Haven't been this excited for a course in a long time: best in class instructors, guest speakers, credits and community ๐Ÿ‘
Solmaz Shahalizadeh (@solmaz_sh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

100%, seeing this everyday in practice. The good news is you can start collecting higher quality data any minute and improve the quality of LLM powered products and experiences as a result.

Fixie.ai ๐ŸฆŠ (@fixieai) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today we're releasing Ultravox v0.5, the next iteration of our open-weight speech language model With this release, we've closed the gap with proprietary models. Ultravox now outperforms GPT-4o Realtime & Gemini 1.5 Flash on key benchmarks for speech understanding ๐Ÿงต

Today we're releasing Ultravox v0.5, the next iteration of our open-weight speech language model

With this release, we've closed the gap with proprietary models. Ultravox now outperforms GPT-4o Realtime &amp; Gemini 1.5 Flash on key benchmarks for speech understanding

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