Explore Snowflake's AI research and generative AI innovations in this PyCon US sponsor presentation. Delve into the importance of transparency in AI models and discover how Snowflake's AI research team implements openness in building and sharing generative AI developments. Learn about open tools, practices, datasets, and recipes that contribute to their research. Gain insights into the successful and unsuccessful approaches used when training Large Language Models (LLMs). Examine developer-first example use cases of prompting, retrieval, and presentation using Snowflake's developed datasets, embeddings, and model trainings. Presented by Yusuf Ozuysal, this 1-hour 19-minute talk emphasizes simplicity and ease-of-use while maintaining efficiency at scale in AI development.