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Mars: AI assistant infrastructures are monopolized by major tech companies
“These kinds of infrastructures are monopolized essentially by companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft, and so forth.”
Mars: Converting search to AI assistants requires 100x data center scaling
“If you moved all of the queries that were search queries and turn them into intelligent personal assistant queries, we would have to grow our data centers by two orders of magnitude.”
Mars: Apple requested Sirius AI project rename, resulting in Lucida
“After Sirius gained a good bit of traction, Apple reached out to us and said, you probably should change the name. And so we're now calling it Lucida.”
Mars: Porting Sirius to GPUs and FPGAs yields 10x speedup
“We can get significant speedups when we port these algorithms To GPU, when we leverage GPUs and FPGAs to build future servers, and what that means is we can bring that scalability gap down, and so we can get about 10 X back if we move by taking these, ah, by t…”
Mars: Tech giants are building future data centers around deep learning
“Deep learning is absolutely the bet that companies are making, right? So Google has put a lot of resources into deep learning you know, Facebook. We're designing future data centers and future infrastructures around this one technique, and it's primarily becau…”
Mars: Clarity Lab's custom GPU appliance outperforms off-the-shelf deep learning tools
“Jin is a deep learning engine. It's an appliance. We co-designed a GPU box with a software stack for deep learning and it can, it beats the pants off of out-of-the-box stuff. That you can find.”
Mars: Apple built a $1 billion data center for Siri's launch
“Apple built a one billion dollar data center at the time that Siri was released.”
Mars: Compute-intensive ML algorithms drive 92% of Sirius execution workload
“And so across the entire workload, 92% of the execution of series could be described by these compute-intensive algorithms.”
Mars: Open-source Sirius AI system ranked number one on GitHub
“It was number one on GitHub for a couple weeks.”
Mars: Clinc's license covers four years of future university lab research
“We have an unprecedented license agreement where in addition to all the tech we currently have, four years of future tech is also covered in our license. So as we improve it from our research lab, It's exclusively owned by Clarity Lab Inc, the improvements.”
Mars: Clarity Lab used candle wax to cool servers longer
“There's a work where we put candle wax in servers to keep them cooler longer.”
Mars: Sirius QA system uses the entire Wikipedia corpus for answers
“We have a QA system, a question and answer system that has at its disposal the entire corpus of Wikipedia to answer your question, and it hits that system, and the answer is plucked from the knowledge base of Wikipedia and sent to the user.”