AlexNet

4 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 20, 2024 by Justin Johnson · said 10 times in 6 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Sep 20, 2024 neutral
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Justin Johnson: AlexNet's 6-day training takes under 5 minutes on GB200
“So I ran the numbers last night, like that two week training run, that of six days on two GTX five eighties, if you scale, it comes out to just under five minutes on a single GB 200.”
Justin Johnson Sep 20, 2024 ▶ 8:26 “The Future of AI is Here” — Fei-Fei Li Unveils the Next Frontier of AI
Sep 20, 2024 neutral
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Fei-Fei Li: AlexNet's architecture mirrored 1980s models, unlocked by GPUs
“The 2012 AlexNet paper on ImageNet Challenge is literally a very classic model, and that is the convolutional neural network model, and that was published in 19 eighties, the first paper. I remember as a graduate student learning that, and it more or less also…”
Fei-Fei Li Sep 20, 2024 ▶ 8:41 “The Future of AI is Here” — Fei-Fei Li Unveils the Next Frontier of AI
Sep 20, 2024 neutral
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Justin Johnson: AlexNet trained for six days on two consumer GPUs
“That AlexNet was a sixty million parameter deep neural network and it was trained for six days on two GTX five eighties, which was the top consumer card at the time, which came out in 2010.”
Justin Johnson Sep 20, 2024 ▶ 7:56 “The Future of AI is Here” — Fei-Fei Li Unveils the Next Frontier of AI
Aug 5, 2026
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Bornstein: AlexNet originally ran on only two GPUs
“AlexNet, First, you know, kind of, like, neural network to run on, on GPUs that we care about ran on two GPUs. And that's not like there are no missing decimal points or commas in there. Literally two.”
Matt Bornstein Aug 5, 2026 ▶ 28:09 How Open Source Became AI's Backbone | Inferact with a16z
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