Expanding AI chip capabilities beyond Nvidia with Modular CEO Chris Lattner | E1808

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Today’s show:

Modular CEO Chris Lattner joins Jason to discuss the process of building LLMs (8:14), what caused Nvidia to be entrenched in machine learning today (35:37), the AI wrapper debate (41:44), and much more!

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Time stamps:

(0:00) Modular CEO Chris Lattner joins Jason

(2:24) Where hardware and optimization stand today

(8:14) What goes into deploying and distributing an AI model into a product

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(12:02) Why companies make their own machine-learning software

(14:32) Nvidia’s outlook on what Modular is building

(18:46) Chris’s time at Apple

(20:05) Strategies for reducing complexity

(22:53) Awareness of underlying complexities in the technology stack

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(26:46) What it will look like in five to ten years; Increase consumption by creating new categories

(31:29) The open-source community; RISC-V and Arm

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(35:37) How Nvidia secured its position

(38:21) The AlexNet moment

(41:44) The AI wrapper debate

(44:32) OpenAI moving from non-profit to profit and open to closed-system

(46:32) The lack of programmers and the ability to do more with less

(52:09) Modular Mojo and other developments

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