S1E5 - Inside LinkedIn’s AI Engineering Playbook

While the rest of the industry chases massive models, LinkedIn quietly achieved a major engineering breakthrough by going small.

In this episode of Beyond the Pilot, Erran Berger (VP of Product Engineering, LinkedIn) opens the "cookbook" on how they distilled massive 7B parameter models down to ultra-efficient 600M parameter "student" models—scaling AI to 1.2 billion users without breaking the bank.

AI Gets Real Here. This isn't theory. Erran details the exact architecture, the "Multi-Teacher" distillation process, and the organizational shift that forced Product Managers to write evals instead of specs.

In this episode, we...