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Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 50:18 David Rosenthal So, the team in Toronto
- ▶ 50:33 David Rosenthal The Toronto team rewrites their neural network algorithms in CUDA, NVIDIA's programming language.
- ▶ 52:09 David Rosenthal So, after AlexNet, the three of them from Toronto, Jeff Hinton, Alex Koshevsky, and Ilya Sitskiver, do the natural thing,
Novo Nordisk (Ozempic) · Acquired
- ▶ 5:30 David Rosenthal Well, we start in 1921, over a hundred years ago, in Toronto, Canada, with the discovery and extraction of the pancreatic hormone insulin by a laboratory group at the University of Toronto Medical School.
- ▶ 9:22 David Rosenthal But until Toronto, nobody had been able to actually isolate what that hormone was, let alone extract it.
- ▶ 12:01 Ben Gilbert And so you have people ringing off the hook, newspapers reporting, the breakthrough is here, the breakthrough is here, and they've got like, you know, single digits or dozens of vials of usable insulin, each of which needs to be injected…
- ▶ 19:02 David Rosenthal How the hell does he end up going to Toronto, getting involved in all of this, starting, you know, Nova Nordisk?
- ▶ 21:44 David Rosenthal And Elliot tells them about what's going on in Toronto.
- ▶ 22:57 David Rosenthal While they're in Toronto, they might be able to secure like some rights or ability to bring insulin back to Denmark.
- ▶ 23:04 David Rosenthal McLeod in Toronto, you know, he gets the letter.
- ▶ 23:11 David Rosenthal Sadly, unfortunately, Marie falls ill and she can't make the trip up to Toronto.
- ▶ 25:09 David Rosenthal So using the Toronto method, they get a bunch of pancreases.
- ▶ 25:45 David Rosenthal This leaves just one obvious problem, just like insulin in Toronto.
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 10:02 David Rosenthal And what these guys from Toronto did is they went out probably to their local Best Buy or equivalent in Canada.
- ▶ 12:26 David Rosenthal Yeah, it was pretty useful stuff, and this Alex Knapp moment and these three researchers from Toronto kicked off, you know, Jensen calls it, and he's absolutely right, the Big Bang moment for AI.
- ▶ 12:40 Ben Gilbert So David, the last time we told this story in full, we talked about this team from Toronto, we did not follow what this team of three went on to do afterwards.