The Lay of the Land

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Making PepsiCo's sales force AI-ready, with Alina Scherbinina
Sr Director of Growth and Digital Transformation at PepsiCo, previously Chief Growth Office at UTair and senior marketer at P&G
Aug 20 • 
Arjun Rakesh K O
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June 2025

When marketing meets AI, with Julie S Miers
the founder of Pop Goes the Weasel, an AI-first marketing consultancy, previously Sr. Director of Marketing at Kroger
Jun 27 • 
Arjun Rakesh K O
3
AI on the (Near) edge (1/3) - MicroDCs and Telco MECs
The spinal cord of the distributed AI nervous system
Jun 2 • 
Arjun Rakesh K O
1

May 2025

AI Inference (3/3) - As a service
Meet the gatekeepers of AI inference
May 1
6

April 2025

AI Inference (2/3) - Semiconductors
Chips, systems and the companies behind them
Apr 2 • 
Arjun Rakesh K O
3

March 2025

AI Inference (1/3) - the AI age utility
A deep dive into AI inference: how it works, the hardware powering it, and how it’s becoming the backbone of modern intelligence.
Mar 2 • 
Arjun Rakesh K O
6

February 2025

Small language models (2/2) - The Lay of the Land
What's cooking and who's cooking - applications of SLMs and their providers
Feb 16 • 
Arjun Rakesh K O
5
Small Language Models (1/2) - Bigger isn't always better
Latency, reliability, cost, and privacy might matter more
Feb 2 • 
Arjun Rakesh K O
6
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