AI-Powered Stage

The AI-Powered Stage in the Data Science section is focused on providing applied AI capabilties to the GitLab product.

Vision

Build diverse and global development teams in the Data Science section to support GitLab’s vision on the application of AI in the DevOps cycle, while maintaining our values and unique way of working.

Mission

Drive results through iterative development as we add AI features with flexible ML Models capabilities into the product. Our teams are data-driven, support dogfooding, and collaboration within GitLab and the wider community.

Duo

We are the driving force behind Duo, supporting features directly or through the empowerment of other teams. For a single source of truth of feature use-cases that we enable, see this list.

AI Powered Operating Principles

See here.

Stage Meetings

Although we have a bias for asynchronous communication, synchronous meetings are necessary and should adhere to our communication guidelines.

Some regular meetings that take place for all AI teams on the shared AI-Powered Stage Calendar (Calendar ID: c_n5pdr2i2i5bjhs8aopahcjtn84@group.calendar.google.com) are:

Frequency Meeting DRI Possible topics
Monthly AI Powered Monthly Michelle Gill & Roger Woo Roadmap review, leadership feedback, stage-wide direction & strategy
Weekly AI Management Strategy and Alignment Michelle Gill, Jacki Bauer, Roger Woo AI Powered stage-wide / Duo strategy, execution, collaboration and decision making

Stage Groups


AI Framework Group
The AI Framework group is focused on how to support other product groups at GitLab with the AI Abstraction Layer, and GitLab AI feature development.
AI Model Validation Group
The Model Validation group is focused on supporting GitLab teams to make data-driven feature development decisions leveraging ML/AI.
Custom Models Group
The Custom Models group focuses on additional, custom models that power GitLab Duo functionality in support of our customers unique data and use-cases.
Duo Chat Group
We are dedicated to enhancing DevSecOps productivity by building an AI natural language interface to GitLab's Platform.
Duo Workflow Group
The Duo Workflow group is focused on developing GitLab Duo Workflow, an AI system to automate tasks and help increase productivity in your development workflow.