Between the model and the product
The AI Runtime is a community of AI practitioners shipping AI to production who read, meet, and build together. A free weekly newsletter, monthly in-person meetups in Boston, and hands-on labs on real problems. The focus is Vertical AI Agents, Model Reliability Engineering, and the lessons from the trenches of shipping AI.
Practitioner-grade content: specific, sourced, and forward-looking. The kind of pieces you'd forward to your team.
Read by AI practitioners at
- IBM
- Amazon
- Meta
- NVIDIA
- OpenAI
- MIT
- Harvard
- 2,000+ newsletter subscribers
- 200+ in-person attendees
Read, meet, and build
- Read
The weekly newsletter
A free weekly issue on Vertical AI Agents, Model Reliability Engineering, and lessons from the trenches of shipping AI.
- Meet
The Boston meetup
A monthly gathering in Cambridge. Two practitioner talks a night, real production stories, and the people who ship.
- Build
The Field Lab
Production-shaped AI problems and a build pilot, so practitioners work on real problems instead of demos.
What we cover
- 01
Evals & Observability
How practitioners know if AI works in production.
- 02
Agents in Production
Patterns that survive contact with real users.
- 03
Inference & Serving
What actually runs in production at scale.
- 04
Reliability & Incidents
Postmortems, drift, recovery patterns.
- 05
Cost & Performance
The economics of running AI.
Kranthi Manchikanti
Kranthi is the founder of The AI Runtime. He's an AI Architect at Microsoft based in Boston, building the community, the newsletter, and the Boston meetup as a long-term home for AI practitioners.
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