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Sebastian Raschka
Lightning AI; ML educator and author
Staff research engineer at Lightning AI; author of multiple Python ML textbooks. Long-running educational presence whose materials shape how a generation of engineers learns ML.
current Staff Research Engineer, Lightning AI
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Release weights widely; transparency beats closed safetyArgues open educational materials and open-source ML tooling produce the most resilient version of the field; an industry that depends entirely on closed APIs has lost its capacity to teach itself.
Open-source tooling and open educational materials are how the ML field reproduces itself. We can't outsource that to a few frontier labs without losing something important.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.