Maxime Labonne is Head of Post-Training at Liquid AI. He holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from the Polytechnic Institute of Paris and is a Google Developer Expert in AI/ML. He has made significant contributions to the open-source community, including best-in-class models like LFM2/2.5 or the immensely popular LLM Course. He is the author of the best-selling books “LLM Engineer’s Handbook” and “Hands-On Graph Neural Networks Using Python”.

Connect with him on X and LinkedIn @maximelabonne.

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