Build production-grade AI apps with Nebius Token Factory

Hosted by: Draper Startup House, Nebius Startup Program, and Basecamp by Elevation!

This session offers a technical walkthrough on running Open Frontier AI in production, covering inference, SFT, custom speculative decoding, and dedicated endpoints on Nebius Token Factory.

What to Expect

• Technical Presentation & Demo: Learn how to run a full-stack AI Engineering Pipeline with Nebius Token Factory.

1. Choosing Your Model Stack

   • A decision framework on open weights vs. proprietary APIs. Understand when open-weight models excel in cost, latency, data control, or flexibility, and when they don't. Discover how Kimi K3, with its 2.8T MoE model, scores 57 on the Intelligence Index, just behind GPT-5.6 Sol.

2. Building on Kimi K3

   • Explore the architecture: 2.8T total parameters activating only 16 of 896 experts per token, Kimi Delta Attention, native vision, and a full 1M-token window. Learn where K3 outperforms alternatives and integration patterns through Token Factory's OpenAI-compatible API.

3. Full-Stack AI Engineering

   • Demo Across the Pipeline:
     • Inference: Fast vs. Base flavors, time-to-first-token under load, multi-region routing.
     • Post-Training (SFT): LoRA and full fine-tunes on your data, promoting a tuned model into production.
     • Custom Speculative Decoding: Train your draft model against actual traffic shape for improved latency.
     • Dedicated Endpoints: Performance isolation, reserved capacity, autoscaling, and when the switch pays for itself.

4. Open Floor

   • Discuss the hardest AI problems you're facing with peers.

Who This Is For

CTOs, VPs of Engineering, AI Architects, AI FDEs, and senior AI engineers at growth-stage startups building AI-native or AI-augmented products (typically Series A and beyond). If you're running inference in production or about to, this session is for you.

What You'll Leave With

• A decision framework for open-weight vs. proprietary models.
• Insights into Kimi K3's capabilities.
• Production-tested patterns for reliable, cost-efficient inference.
• Code samples and cookbooks for your team to reproduce on Monday.
• Access to the Nebius Builders Program for Token Factory credits.
• Connections with peers facing similar scaling challenges.

Who's Hosting

The Nebius Token Factory team, in partnership with Draper Startup House, Nebius Startup Program, and Elevation Capital's Basecamp.

Logistics

• Date: 07-Aug-2026
• Time: 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM (Dinner is served!)
• Location: Founder Startup House, Startup Lane 384, 1st A Main Rd, 7th Block, Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560095, India
• Admission: Free
• RSVP Here — Drinks and snacks provided.

This event is part of Basecamp, a community-powered tech week in Bengaluru, bringing founders, builders, and operators together.