Explosion builds **developer tools** for AI, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.

### Project

- [spaCy](/content/_/project/spacy/index.html)
- [Prodigy](/content/_/project/prodigy/index.html)
- [Ellf](/content/_/project/ellf/index.html)
- [Thinc](/content/_/project/thinc/index.html)
- [Consulting](/content/_/project/consulting/index.html)
- [Case Study](/content/_/project/case_study/index.html)

### Topics

- [LLMs](/content/_/topic/llms/index.html)
- [NLP Strategy](/content/_/topic/strategy/index.html)
- [Annotation](/content/_/topic/annotation/index.html)
- [Biomedical](/content/_/topic/biomedical/index.html)
- [Finance](/content/_/topic/finance/index.html)
- [Media](/content/_/topic/media/index.html)
- [Legal](/content/_/topic/legal/index.html)
- [Humanities](/content/_/topic/humanities/index.html)
- [Computer Vision](/content/_/topic/computer-vision/index.html)

### Category

- [Blog](/content/_/category/blog/index.html)
- [Release](/content/_/category/release/index.html)
- [Universe](/content/_/category/universe/index.html)
- [Talk](/content/site-root.html)
- [Interview](/content/_/category/interview/index.html)
- [Video](/content/_/category/video/index.html)
- [Paper](/content/_/category/paper/index.html)
- [Book](/content/_/category/book/index.html)

### Tasks

Select...Code Generation, Coreference Resolution, Dependency Parsing, Distillation, Embeddings & Vectors, Entity Linking, Evaluation, Image Classification, Image Segmentation, Layout Analysis, Lemmatization, Named Entity Recognition, Object Detection, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Part-of-Speech Tagging, PII Anonymization, Question Answering, Relation Extraction, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Rule-Based Matching, Span Categorization, Text Classification, Text Generation, Tokenization, Weak Supervision

### Authors

Select...Adriane Boyd, Ákos Kádár, Basile Dura, Chung-Fan Tsai, Damian Romero, Daniel de Kok, Duygu Altinok, Edward Schmuhl, Helena Steckmeister, India Kerle, Ines Montani, Kabir Khan, Lj Miranda, Madeesh Kannan, Magdalena Anioł, Matthew Honnibal, Paul O’Leary McCann, Peter Baumgartner, Philip Vollet, Raphael Mitsch, Rehan Ahmed, Richard Hudson, Ryan Wesslen, Sofie Van Landeghem, Victoria Slocum, Vincent D. Warmerdam, Vinit Ravishankar, Walter Henry

## [Vibe NLP for Applied NLP](https://speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/vibe-nlp-for-applied-nlp)

[What if we could take learnings from AI-powered coding agents and apply them to solving real-world NLP problems? In this talk, I’ll show how we’ve built a powerful virtual NLP assistant to help developers create practical and modular solutions that are small, fast and fully data-private.](https://speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/vibe-nlp-for-applied-nlp)

## [Feminist AI LAN Party](https://feministai.party/events/2025-04-23)

[Three days of workshops, hacking, creating, publishing and connecting locally, featuring a data development workshop with Prodigy and a session on hacking LLMs.](https://feministai.party/events/2025-04-23)

## [PyLadies entrepreneurs and career development](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V73KeBCzXpM)

[Panel discussion about career challenges and starting your own business with Cheuk Ting Ho, Tereza Iofciu, Anwesha Das, Una Galyeva and Ines.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V73KeBCzXpM)

## [Applied NLP in the Age of Generative AI](https://speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/applied-nlp-in-the-age-of-generative-ai)

[In this talk, Ines shares the most important lessons we’ve learned from solving real-world information extraction problems in industry, and shows you a new approach and mindset for designing robust and modular NLP pipelines in the age of Generative AI.](https://speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/applied-nlp-in-the-age-of-generative-ai)

## [Towards Structured Data: LLMs from Prototype to Production](https://speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/towards-structured-data-llms-from-prototype-to-production)

[This talk presents pragmatic and practical approaches for how to use LLMs beyond just chat bots, how to ship more successful NLP projects from prototype to production and how to use the latest state-of-the-art models in real-world applications.](https://speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/towards-structured-data-llms-from-prototype-to-production)

## [The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized: How open-source beats economies of scale, even for LLMs](https://speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/the-ai-revolution-will-not-be-monopolized-how-open-source-beats-economies-of-scale-even-for-llms-qcon-london)

[With the latest advancements in NLP and LLMs, and big companies like OpenAI dominating the space, many people wonder: Are we heading further into a black box era with larger and larger models, obscured behind APIs controlled by big tech monopolies?](https://speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/the-ai-revolution-will-not-be-monopolized-how-open-source-beats-economies-of-scale-even-for-llms-qcon-london)

## [Half hour of labeling power: Can we beat GPT?](https://speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/workshop-half-hour-of-labeling-power-can-we-beat-gpt)

[Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a lot of value for modern NLP and can typically achieve surprisingly good accuracy on predictive NLP tasks. But can we do even better than that? In this workshop we show how to use LLMs at development time to create high-quality datasets and train specific, smaller, private and more accurate models for your business problems.](https://speakerdeck.com/inesmontani/workshop-half-hour-of-labeling-power-can-we-beat-gpt)