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+takeaways/next steps
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+- great collaboration, even though colab is not the ideal collaboration platform :) passing code snippets and forking/merging does go a long way for prototypes!
+  - let's optionally commit colabs to piper / make sure they are all linked in go/mlops-notes
+  - opportunity to share corpora and cross-power up!
+- opportunity to contribute to tools at Google
+  - IRM 
+  - llm4sre
+    - they have 'serving' figured out, but their current use cases are still limited. in particular around large corpora