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Tomek Kupidura

Tomek Kupidura

Co-founder & CTO

Co-founder and CTO of Mandala Software House. He designs AI systems for regulated industries, mainly finance and healthcare: RAG knowledge bases, AI agents whose actions are approved by a human, and models running on the client's own infrastructure. Before Mandala he worked with VR technology for medical education at Medicalholodeck.

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on-premise-vs-cloud-ai.mdx
On-premise or cloud AI? How to choose the right infrastructure for AI in your company
AI & ML
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On-premise or cloud AI? How to choose the right infrastructure for AI in your company

Cloud, on-premise, or hybrid AI: costs and TCO, data transfer, latency, GDPR and DORA, team skills, and a step-by-step decision framework.

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fine-tuning-open-source-models.mdx
When off-the-shelf AI isn't enough: a business guide to fine-tuning open-source models
AI & ML
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When off-the-shelf AI isn't enough: a business guide to fine-tuning open-source models

When fine-tuning an open-source model pays off, how it differs from RAG, how to pick a model (Qwen, Mistral, Gemma, Llama, Bielik), and what to prepare (2026).

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