• I wanted to do independent ML research while I was in undergrad but thought of giving industry a try.
• So then I worked at Weights & Biases for around 2.5 years and led OSS channel for the ML team back in 2020. Things became a bit boring after it became the market leader and I thought I missed doing hardcore ML research.
• So I worked with Ultralytics to co-author Ultralytics/yolov8 framework & yolo5-seg with laughing-q, the fist and only real time instance segmentation model (which a lot of frameworks simply copied without understanding why it worked so well). Both those tools are used by millions of users, power 1000s of OSS projects and get downloaded over a 150K times everyday.
• I used to work on LanceDB - the best vectorDB on planet powered by the best OSS storage layer for multi-modal AI, lance.

Currently I'm conducting independent R&D on variety of topics - Realtime CV, VLMs, LLMs, Retrieval and business & philosophy.

Where to reach out:

• Email: ayush.chaurarsia at gmail
• twitter and youtube linked to profile