Project Fleming – An Open Source Discovery Tool

We will hear Dr. Christian DeFeo and Ben Butcher, from Shell, discuss Project Fleming: An Open Source Discovery Tool

Project Fleming (https://projectfleming.tech/) : Originally devised for Shell, this model-agnostic, AI-powered Discovery Tool harnesses open source models from Hugging Face on Small CPU Clusters on Databricks.

InnerSource refers to the deployment of Open Source practices of code and information sharing within a single organization. By sharing, they have reduced duplication, freed up cognitive space for innovation, and increased the speed of delivery.

However, simply setting repositories to “open” is not enough to ensure effective sharing. Traditional search tools often have a narrow focus and rely on specificity.

The solution is a Discovery tool, allowing developers to find unexpected yet helpful solutions and information. Leveraging the power of Artificial Intelligence, this tool is designed to be resource-efficient, using clever programming techniques to serve models with Databricks on a CPU cluster instead of a GPU one.

Shell has made this tool Open-Source: we will use this session to present the tool, how it works, and invite questions and contributions.