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We specialize in developer tools & tailored solutions for AI & NLP. Makers of spacy.io and prodi.gy.

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inesmontani.bsky.social
Back from a few days in Amsterdam for PyData! Here are some of my highlights:

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September 29, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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inesmontani.bsky.social
In town for PyData Amsterdam! Who will be there? 🙋‍♀️

Looking forward to chatting about NLP and more, some cool Feminist AI hacking and catching up with everyone. I also have some brand new and exciting dev tooling to demo for those interested ✨
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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inesmontani.bsky.social
I was interviewed for a German article on it-daily about efficient AI development in industry, the role of open source, and using Generative AI to create systems and data for smaller models. Thanks Silvia for the feature!

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June 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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inesmontani.bsky.social
What a great meetup! Thanks to everyone who came by yesterday for an evening of real-world AI and bullshit-free strategies for building LLM applications.

Recap and highlights: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
June 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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inesmontani.bsky.social
I'm back from a busy four days in London! 💜 I had a great time at @pydatalondon.bsky.social‬ and you can read my recap and highlights here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
June 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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stereosky.bsky.social
At #PyData London @inesmontani.bsky.social confirms our suspicions that we should try not to work with PDFs directly. Do the expensive extraction upfront into a unified structured format and build all your analysis and #NLP components yourself so you can better modularise
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June 7, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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inesmontani.bsky.social
Hi Berlin people! @hugobowne.bsky.social is in town & we're celebrating by hosting a meetup together 🎉 This one is all about building with AI & we'll also open the floor for lightning talks. If you're around, come hang out with us!

📆 June 16, 18:00
📍 Native Instruments (Kreuzberg)
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June 2, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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honnibal.bsky.social
Back to streaming spaCy! Working on Python 3.13 compatibility today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgjQ...
Streaming spaCy (May 19, 2025): Working on Python 3.13 compatibility
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May 19, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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talkpython.fm
Awesome new episode with a bunch of fun and smart people:

Episode #504: Developer Trends in 2025

Featuring @foosel.net, @richcampbell.bsky.social, @calvinhp.com, @inesmontani.bsky.social, and @mkennedy.codes #python

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Developer Trends in 2025
What trends and technologies should you be paying attention to today? Are there hot new database servers you should check out? Or will that just be a flash in the pan? I love these forward looking epi...
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May 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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inesmontani.bsky.social
Here are the slides for my talk "Conquering PDFs: document understanding beyond plain text": speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/...
Conquering PDFs: document understanding beyond plain text
NLP and data science could be so easy if all of our data came as clean and plain text. But in practice, a lot of it is hidden away in PDFs, Word documen…
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April 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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inesmontani.bsky.social
Another great @pyconde.bsky.social is over and I'm exhausted but happy, and feel very inspired! ⚡

Here are my personal highlights: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
April 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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inesmontani.bsky.social
In Darmstadt for @pyconde.bsky.social 🐍✨

Tomorrow I'll be speaking about conquering PDFs and document understanding, and Thursday I'm joining the fireside chat panel on enterprise AI & open source. And I'll be around for the @feminist-ai.bsky.social LAN Party open hours to hack LLMs. See you there!
April 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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inesmontani.bsky.social
Feminist AI is coming to @pyconde.bsky.social! If you're around, drop by at any time during the open hours and join us for workshops on hacking LLMs and data development, or contribute to our DIY PyCon zine ⚡

Follow for updates: @feminist-ai.bsky.social
Details: feministai.party/events/2025-...
April 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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wjbmattingly.bsky.social
This is another great and short read from @inesmontani.bsky.social at spaCy. It has a lot of implications for those who work in the humanities and industry.

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#MachineLearning
How to advocate for modular NLP in the age of Generative AI · Explosion
With all the hype around Generative AI, many are led to believe it’s the solution to everything. So how can you, as a developer, communicate the nuances and advocate for new and modular solutions that...
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April 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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talkpython.fm
The episode is now out on youtube, coming to podcast channels in a few weeks. Great show, thanks Ines!
April 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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inesmontani.bsky.social
Enjoying my train ride to Münster for data:unplugged!

Tomorrow I'll be speaking about real-world use cases of AI, how to navigate black-box models and why open source means that nobody can monopolize AI (unless we let them) ✊

I will be around all day, so if you're attending, come and say hi!
April 9, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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inesmontani.bsky.social
My friend @hugobowne.bsky.social launched new course on Building LLM Applications for Data Scientists and Software Engineers! I'll be joining for a guest lecture on human-in-the-loop development and distillation workflows.

You can get 10% off with my code + lots of perks: maven.com/hugo-stefan/...
April 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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inesmontani.bsky.social
Announcing a new event initiative: Feminist AI LAN Party! Katharine and I did a pilot event last year and we're now taking it to @pyconde.bsky.social.

We've also open-sourced event kits to make it easy to host your own, including:

💣 hacking LLMs
📑 data development
✂️ zine making

feministai.party
April 4, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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inesmontani.bsky.social
I don't normally write advice columns but this question I got deserved its own post: With all the hype around Generative AI, how can you, as a developer, communicate the nuances and advocate for new and modular solutions that are better, easier and cheaper?

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March 31, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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inesmontani.bsky.social
So many good events coming up this season. Here's my schedule – hope to see you there!

Apr 10: data:unplugged (Münster)
Apr 23: @pyconde.bsky.social (Darmstadt)
May 31: @pyconit.bsky.social (Bologna)
Jun 5: ECONDAT (London)
Jun 7-8: @pydatalondon.bsky.social (London)

📆 Details: explosion.ai/events
March 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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fdoemges.bsky.social
@explosion-ai.bsky.social

Only the best companies will send you stickers if you are a fan and beg for them!

Thank you so much, Ines and Matt!!!!
March 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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inesmontani.bsky.social
TIL: Incorrect music metadata is a huge problem and is causing artists to lose millions in royalties. This disproportionaly affects independent musicians. But structured NLP can help!

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March 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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inesmontani.bsky.social
New case study: How Love Without Sound built innovative AI-powered tools for the music industry and law firms, and helped publishers recover hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue for artists.

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March 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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inesmontani.bsky.social
Out now: Prodigy v1.18! New features include:

✍️ edit text during span annotation
💬 fully custom UI translations
🎛️ new JavaScript events and functions
✅ various small fixes and docs

More details: prodi.gy/docs/changelog
February 25, 2025 at 11:38 AM