EP32: From Computational Chemistry to AI at Scale: Alexa Griffith on Building Real AI Infrastructure

In this episode, we sit down with Alexa Griffith, Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, to discuss what’s really happening behind the scenes of modern AI infrastructure.

From her journey transitioning from computational chemistry to software engineering, to building AI systems at scale.

We also dive into:

• How AI systems handle scale, latency, and security

• Why AI infrastructure matters more than ever

• The engineering challenges behind production AI

• OpenAI vs Claude and the current AI model race

• Why many companies still struggle with AI adoption

Learn more about Alexa at https://alexagriffith.com/

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