--- title: AI Lab: The secrets to keeping machine learning... description: Meta's AI Lab is a pre-production framework that improves the developer velocity of machine learning engineers by minimizing the time to first batch (TTFB),... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-lab-the-secrets-to-keeping-machine-learning-engineers-moving-fast-jlh4s5mjk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AI Lab: The secrets to keeping machine learning engineers moving fast | daily.dev og:description: Meta's AI Lab is a pre-production framework that improves the developer velocity of machine learning engineers by minimizing the time to first batch (TTFB),... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/ai-lab-the-secrets-to-keeping-machine-learning-engineers-moving-fast-jlh4s5mjk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/jLH4s5Mjk.png og:image:alt: AI Lab: The secrets to keeping machine learning engineers moving fast og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AI Lab: The secrets to keeping machine learning engineers moving fast **[Facebook Engineering ](https://daily.dev/sources/facebook_code)** · 7 min read · 12 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Meta's AI Lab is a pre-production framework that improves the developer velocity of machine learning engineers by minimizing the time to first batch (TTFB), which is the delay from submitting an ML workflow to its first batch of data processing. By continuously A/B testing common ML workflows, AI Lab proactively enhances TTFB and prevents regressions, leading to faster iterations and innovations. The implementation of AI Lab, exemplified by its use of the open-source Python Cinder runtime to achieve up to a 40% reduction in TTFB, shows significant improvements in ML infrastructure efficiency. Meta invites industry collaboration to further enhance such tools. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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