This technical workshop is designed for CTOs, VPs of Engineering, AI Architects, AI FDEs, and senior AI engineers at growth-stage startups (typically Series A and beyond) who are building AI-native or AI-augmented products. Hosted by Nebius, Basecamp, and Founder Startup House, the session offers a deep dive into running Open Frontier AI in production using Nebius Token Factory.
What to Expect
- Choosing Your Model Stack: A decision framework (not a vendor pitch) for when open-weight models win on cost, latency, data control, or flexibility versus proprietary APIs. The session will explore how Kimi K3—a 2.8T MoE model with open weights and a score of 57 on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, just two points behind GPT-5.6 Sol—changes the calculus.
- Building on Kimi K3: An architectural deep dive into what makes K3 work: 2.8T total parameters activating only 16 of 896 experts per token, Kimi Delta Attention, native vision, and a full 1M-token window. Learn where K3 outperforms alternatives on long-horizon coding and agentic tasks, and how to integrate it via Token Factory's OpenAI-compatible API.
- Full-Stack AI Engineering Demo: A live demonstration across the entire pipeline, covering inference (Fast vs. Base flavors, time-to-first-token under load, multi-region routing), post-training (LoRA and full fine-tunes on your own data, promoting tuned models to production), custom speculative decoding (training your own draft model against your workload's traffic shape), and dedicated endpoints (performance isolation, reserved capacity, autoscaling).
- Open Floor: A chance to discuss your hardest AI problems with the speakers and peers.
Who Should Attend
This workshop is ideal for technical leaders and senior engineers at startups that are scaling AI products. Whether you are evaluating open-weight models, optimizing inference costs, or planning to fine-tune models on proprietary data, this session provides practical insights and hands-on guidance.
About the Organizers
Nebius is a leading AI infrastructure company providing GPU cloud and AI-native services. Basecamp is a startup accelerator and community platform. Founder Startup House is a Bengaluru-based co-working and community space for founders and tech teams. Together, they bring a wealth of experience in building and scaling AI products.
Event Details
- Date: August 7, 2026
- Time: 10:00 AM IST (tentative)
- Location: Founder Startup House, Koramangala, Bengaluru
- Format: In-person workshop
- Cost: Free
Register now to secure your spot and take your AI engineering to the next level.