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Interested in fine-tuning vision language models and their real-world applications? Check out our latest work with fine-tuned LLaVA, where Yanwei (Wayne) Zhang and our Data team achieved better-than-human accuracy in some e-commerce applications. This approach enhances model accuracy, streamlines user experience, and boosts operational efficiency through advanced automation. They also explore extending this to a general instruction-following framework for tasks like recommending product titles, descriptions, and extracting attributes such as color, materials, weights, and dimensions. https://lnkd.in/gqSAz_4J

📣 Calling new and soon-to-be shop owners! 📣 Have you been thinking about opening up a shop? Or just opened a new space this year? Introducing our Open with Faire competition 🛍️ — a limited-time giveaway where you can win £5,000 to stock your shelves through Faire! 🌟 Enter to win here: https://bit.ly/3VHWxrD 🌟 Learn more about the competition and review the rules here: https://bit.ly/3zs6GRL

Today we announced that Lauren Cooks Levitan has been named President of Faire, and Jason Lee will become CFO. Since 2019, Lauren has driven incredible impact for Faire, and this new role will help unlock even more value for our global customer community. Our finance team is in great hands with Jason, who has brought tremendous value to Faire since joining as VP of Finance last year. This update will help us fulfill our mission of empowering brands and retailers to strengthen the unique character of their local communities today and for many years to come. Congratulations, Lauren and Jason!

Our customers are our biggest inspiration. But finding the right retailers to feature in our Shelf Love campaign, a series of short videos highlighting unique retailers and their aspirational merchandising skills, was a little less than straightforward. With so many incredible retailers to choose from, how would we find the right people? Faire Senior Brand Designer Patrick Moriarty shares how the creative team developed a clear process for narrowing down the search, ultimately helping us land our three Shelf Love heroes: https://lnkd.in/gefEhMn7

Listen to Faire CPO, Ami Vora on Lenny’s Podcast - it was a great episode where she shared learnings, best practices, and important lessons from her experience leading product teams of all sizes and building tools for customers around the world. Want to join our growing team? Check out our open roles here: https://lnkd.in/gta6FmX

"Some problems can be solved much better collectively and together. We’re willing to invest because it’s going to serve us all for generations to come.” Last month we brought together some of Colorado's small business leaders to discuss the tools, policies, and resources available to entrepreneurs in the state and beyond. Thank you Jim Vernon, SCORE Mentors, Hunter Nelson, MSW Small Business Majority, and Debra Brown, Good Business Colorado for lending your expertise and insights on this important topic.

Search is an indispensable tool for us as we empower retailers to find products that are relevant, personalized, and desirable. However, from a technology perspective, finding the right approach to search has required, well, a bit of searching. Jason Xu from our data team shares our journey and learnings around search at Faire, and how we've enabled the semantic search functionality through embedding-based retrieval: https://lnkd.in/g-XgXF-p

We’re very excited to welcome Thuan Pham as Chief Technology Officer! A prominent engineering executive known for his leadership as CTO at both Uber and Coupang, he will lead our engineering, data, and IT teams, and shape Faire's technical strategy. In this role, he’s eager to build tools that empower business owners around the world to carve out their own paths and pursue their dreams.