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# How AI Models Get Smarter


- **Date:** Thursday, Jul 10, 2025
- **Time:** 16:10–16:40 (30 min)
- **Room:** Mainstage
- **Event:** World Congress 2025
- **Tags:** ai, llms

## Recording

[Watch recording](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1374-how-ai-models-get-smarter)

## Description

In this beginner-friendly talk, we’ll explore the scaling laws that explain how AI performance improves as we scale up compute. You’ll learn how models are pre-trained and why bigger models often deliver better results. You will understand why developers and researchers use techniques like fine-tuning and distillation to optimize model performance and why reasoning models continue to push performance even further. What does this mean for developers building real AI applications? No advanced math required — just curiosity and a desire to understand the next generation of AI models.

## Speaker

### [Ankit Patel](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@ankit-patel)

Senior Director Developer Marketing at NVIDIA


## Related talks at this congress

- [Unveiling the Magic: Scaling Large Language Models to Serve Millions](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/907-unveiling-the-magic) — Patrick Koss
- [From Model to Metal: An Open Source Stack for Accelerating Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/832-from-model-to-metal) — Andrew Wafaa
- [Open Source AI, To Foundation Models and Beyond](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/795-open-source-ai-to) — Andreas Blattmann, Ankit Patel, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Matt White, Philipp Schmid
- [You are not my model anymore - understanding LLM model behavior](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2025/sessions/555-you-are-not-my-model) — Andreas Erben