Llama 2 & 3 Safety: Soumya Batra on Agentic AI Training

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In this episode of The Data Engineering Show, host Benjamin Wagner sits down with Soumya Batra , founder and CEO of WisePort AI and former tech lead at Meta where she led safety efforts for Llama 2 and Llama 3, to explore the evolution of NLP, the complete lifecycle of foundation model training, and why the next AI frontier lies in natively agentic systems rather than simply scaling larger transformers.

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