In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy 
About Blair Hudson
Blair Hudson is Chief Engineer, Generative AI at Commonwealth Bank, where he leads the technical direction of the nine to ten teams building the generative AI platform used across the bank.
He studied software and data science, worked in consulting, and in 2020 joined Faethm, a start-up that used AI to analyse how technology changes work and jobs. He has built with language models since OpenAI's GPT-2, well before ChatGPT, and writes about AI and software engineering on his Substack, Sublight.
On In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy, in an episode made in paid partnership with Commonwealth Bank, he explained how a large bank builds and scales generative AI for millions of customers.
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Key moments from Building AI at Scale: Inside Australia's Largest Bank with Blair Hudson.
- 3:05What Does a Chief Engineer of AI at a Bank Actually Do
- 6:02How CBA Collaborates Across Hundreds of Engineering Teams
- 8:56How to Keep Up With AI Tools Without Getting Overwhelmed
- 12:04Why Tool Consistency Matters in Enterprise AI
- 14:56Why Blair Shares His AI Insights Publicly
- 17:51What Being a Hacker Really Means in Tech
- 20:50How Blair Hudson Went From Startup AI to Commonwealth Bank
- 23:59Why CBA Starts Every Sprint With a Real Customer Call
- 27:06Why Over-Engineering Is Killing Your AI Projects
- 29:47Where AI Is Actually Moving the Needle in Banking Right Now
The path so far.
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Chief Engineer, Generative AI · Commonwealth Bank
- Earlier · Startup
VP of Engineering · Faethm AI
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