Jeremy Howard
Not on Prends yetCo-founder of fast.ai and founding CEO of Answer.AI
dialogue engineering · AI-assisted coding · continued pre-training
About
Jeremy Howard is a data scientist, researcher and educator who co-founded fast.ai, a research institute focused on making deep learning accessible. He is the founding CEO of Answer.AI, an R&D lab that turns research advances into practical products, including the Solveit learning platform, the FastHTML Python web framework and the ModernBERT encoder models.
Known for
- Created ULMFiT, an early transfer learning method for language models that underpins the pre-train then fine-tune approach
- Co-founded fast.ai and built the fastai deep learning library, and co-wrote the book Deep Learning for Coders with Fastai and PyTorch
- Served as President and Chief Scientist of Kaggle, after ranking first among competitors there two years running
- Was founding CEO of Enlitic, an early company applying deep learning to medicine
- Founded Answer.AI, whose releases include ModernBERT, FastHTML and the Solveit platform
Key points
- Argues that pre-training and fine-tuning should be treated as one continuous process, gradually mixing in higher quality and task data, rather than as separate stages
- Argues that spreading AI capability widely through education and accessible tools serves society better than concentrating it in a few institutions
- Argues that leaning on AI to generate code can give developers an illusion of control while eroding the hands-on understanding they need, and favors interactive, notebook-style work that keeps people learning
Recent appearances
References hosts use to judge fit- Vibe Coding is a Slot Machine, Jeremy HowardMachine Learning Street Talk (MLST)
- Jeremy Howard on Building 5,000 AI Products with 14 People (Answer AI Deep-Dive)The MAD Podcast with Matt Turck
- AI Magic: Shipping 1000s of successful products with no managers and a team of 12, Jeremy Howard of Answer.aiLatent Space
- Ep 34: Eric Ries and Jeremy Howard (Answer.ai) on the Biggest Mistakes AI Founders are Making and Building the Bell Labs of AIUnsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
- The End of Finetuning, with Jeremy Howard of Fast.aiLatent Space
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