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EP23: Building Open Source AI Frameworks: David Mezzetti on TxtAI and Local-First AI
David Mezzetti, creator of TxtAI, joins us to talk about building open source AI frameworks as a solo developer - and why local-first AI still matters in the age of API-everything.
David's path from running a 50-person IT company through acquisition to building one of the most well-regarded AI orchestration libraries tells you how sometimes constraints breed better design. TextAI started during COVID when he was doing coronavirus literature research and realized semantic search could transform how we find information.
We get into the evolution of the AI framework landscape - from the early…
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