What if Artificial Intelligence could translate complexity without dumbing it down? Ahead of World Summit AI 2025 (08–09 October, Amsterdam), Dylan Bristot, Product Marketing Lead at Nebius AI Studio, shares how his team is breaking barriers in long-context model training—giving researchers and developers access to capabilities once reserved for tech giants. From podcast edits to legal document comprehension, Bristot is focused on building tools that empower creators, not just corporations. But he also warns: the real risk isn’t sentient machines, it’s humans forgetting how to think.
What’s your most compelling dream scenario for AI — a breakthrough that would fundamentally improve life on a global scale?
AI that actually helps people understand complex concepts without making them feel stupid. Like, imagine your doctor's explanation of your bloodwork doesn't require a medical degree to parse, or legal contracts are written for humans first and lawyers second. Not simplification, translation.
What’s a recent project or breakthrough you're especially proud of — and what kind of impact do you hope it will have in the real world?
We've been building what's basically a post-training factory at Nebius AI Studio. The breakthrough isn't one thing, it's that we figured out how to fine-tune massive models (think 70B+ parameters, MoE architectures) with really long contexts (up to 128K tokens) without needing a supercomputer budget.The boring technical part: we've solved a bunch of distributed training problems around context parallelism, expert parallelism, that kind of thing. The interesting part: researchers and companies can now train models on their own data at a scale that was basically impossible six months ago unless you were Google. We're opening it up as a platform this quarter.Real-world impact? Honestly, I'm most excited about what people will build that we haven't thought of. Long-context training opens up stuff like agents that can work with entire codebases, models that understand full legal documents, that sort of thing."
What’s a use case for AI that you think more people should know about — something positive that’s flying under the radar?
Podcast producers using models fine-tuned on their show's style to automatically remove filler words, mouth sounds, awkward pauses. The host still sounds like themselves, just tighter. Cuts editing time by 70%.
If you had to choose one nightmare scenario that keeps you up at night — whether realistic or speculative — what would it be, and what warning signs should we be watching for today?
Humans forgetting how to think. Like when the AI becomes the excuse, the algorithm decided, and suddenly nobody in the room can explain why a decision was made because they've outsourced the reasoning. You see it starting now when people treat model outputs like gospel.
Who or what do you think has the power to prevent your nightmare scenario above?
All of us. Paying attention to chain of thought, to the outputs. Doing our best to avoid AI slop.
What are we not talking about enough in the AI conversation today — something you believe could be hugely important five years from now?
That we're creating a world where some people use AI and other people just get used by it
If you look ahead 10 years, what do you think will be the biggest change in our daily lives?
Probably how we deal with not knowing things. Right now if you don't know something, you look it up and get an answer. In 10 years you'll get a probability distribution and have to figure out what to do with that. Maybe that makes us more thoughtful. Maybe it just makes us more anxious. Flip a coin.
What inspired you to participate in this AI summit as a speaker, and what message do you hope to convey to the audience?
Every time I see someone build something they couldn't have built before, or solve a problem they've been stuck on, that's the payoff. I'm here to talk about that side of it, not the existential debates or the market hype, but the practical question of how we make powerful tools accessible to people who have interesting problems to solve
Dylan Bristot, Product Marketing Lead, Nebius AI Studio
World Summit AI global Summit series
World Summit AI
08 - 09 October 2025
Taets Art & Event Park, Amsterdam
World Summit AI Qatar
09 – 10 December 2025
Doha Exhibition & Convention Center
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