The tiny corp raised $5.1M
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The tiny corp raised $5.1M
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#2True entrepreneur. Having a vision and ignoring naysayers. Go George!
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#3The way they make money is for AMD to buy them out if they’re successful
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#4If they can achieve something competitive with CUDA for $5m, why hasn't AMD done it yet?
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#5Love this overall. Wonderful. But I wouldn't say Cerebras failed just yet -- they're committing to OpenXLA which may provide a better dev-experience in the long run than Nvidia lock-in.
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#6Seems like a much better mission for George Hotz to go on than single handedly trying to fix Twitter.
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#7> I think the only way to start an AI chip company is to start with the software. The computing in ML is not general purpose computing. 95% of models in use today (including LLMs and image generation) have all their compute and memory accesses statically computable.
Agree with this insight. One thing Nvidia got right was a focus on software. They introduced CUDA [1] back in 2007 when the full set of use cases for it didn't seem very obvious. Then their GPUs had Tensor cores, and more complementary software like TensorRT to take full advantage of them post deep learning boom.
Right as Nvidia reported insane earnings beat too [2]. Would love more players in this space for sure.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA [2] - https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/24/nvidia-nvda-earnings-report-...
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#8Can anyone comment on the TinyBox they are taking preorders for?
The tinybox
738 FP16 TFLOPS
144 GB GPU RAM
5.76 TB/s RAM bandwidth
30 GB/s model load bandwidth (big llama loads in around 4 seconds)
AMD EPYC CPU
1600W (one 120V outlet)
Runs 65B FP16 LLaMA out of the box (using tinygrad, subject to software development risks)
$15,000
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#9I wonder what Tenstorrent is doing. Didn't realize they are Canadian.
https://tenstorrent.com/research/tenstorrent-raises-over-200...
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#10Glad he is going ahead with this. Will make for many entertaining live streams no doubt