AI Codecon: Building with Open Source AI
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
The most important question in AI right now is how you can actually own, inspect, and run models on your own terms. Open source AI has moved from a hopeful idea to the foundation that serious teams are building on: open-weight models you can fine-tune, self-hosted stacks you fully control, and a tooling ecosystem that’s evolving faster than any single vendor’s roadmap.
Our AI Codecon brings together the developers, maintainers, and technical leaders who are doing that work in the open. You’ll hear how practitioners are choosing and adapting open models, standing up infrastructure they don’t have to apologize for at audit time, and weighing the real trade-offs, such as cost, performance, transparency, and control, of building on an open foundation instead of a closed API.
Expect candid, hands-on perspectives rather than vendor pitches. We’ll cut through the noise and show you what’s working in production, where the rough edges still are, and how open source is changing who gets to build with AI and on whose terms. Whether you’re evaluating your first open-weight deployment or already running one at scale, you’ll leave with a clearer picture of where this ecosystem is headed and how to position your team for it.
Join leading developers and technical experts to explore the workflows, tools, and architecture decisions defining the open source AI era.
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Your Hosts and Guests
Tim O'Reilly
Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media. He has a history of convening conversations that reshape the computer industry. He’s played a key role in shaping our understanding of the early commercialization of the internet, open source software, big data, and Web 2.0. He believes that the current AI moment is more significant than any of those. His 2017 book, WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us, raised many of the concerns and opportunities about AI that we are wrestling with today. He writes regularly for O’Reilly Radar and on Asimov’s Addendum, his Substack about AI governance.
Addy Osmani
Addy Osmani is a software engineer and leader who was most recently a director at Google Cloud AI, focusing on helping developers and businesses succeed with Gemini, Agent Platform, and the Agent Development Kit (ADK). Addy is the author of numerous books for O’Reilly, including Leading Effective Engineering Teams, Beyond Vibe Coding, The Effective Software Engineer, and Web Performance Engineering in the Age of AI.