Andromeda Cluster: 10 Exaflops* for Startups from Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross

Post by mulmen » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 7:55 PM UTC

bigdict wrote: post #33

mulmen wrote: post #30

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I don’t get it. Why would this be a troll?

An NVIDIA competitor creates a deep learning cluster, calls it Andromeda. Later, these guys create an NVIDIA-based deep learning cluster and call it… Andromeda.

Post by 005 » Tue, Jun 13, 2023, 8:02 PM UTC

swyx wrote: post #39

005 wrote: post #36

Looks like they've reserved a bunch of compute from Lambda Labs? Edit: Based off this tweet, looks very similar https://twitter.com/LambdaAPI/status/1668676838044868620

i mean if its just h100 specs then it cant help but look similar cant it

Post by ignoramous » Fri, Jun 23, 2023, 7:28 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #22

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AI Grant, back in 2018, offered £2500 and got all sorts of skeptical folks doubting Nat's and Daniel's motives (they will steal IP! there's some gotcha here!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16760736 They offer 100x that at £250000 per team now, plus this humongous GPU cluster. Way to start small and work your way to this. Amazing execution.

April 2018 was a more nascient time for AI: BERT wasn't open sourced until November 2018 and GPT-2 wasn't open sourced until February 2019, both of which kicked off the AI boom.