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Catanzaro: In accelerated computing, software failure destroys hardware value
“Accelerated computing is the composition of thousands of technologies. If any of them fail to deliver acceleration, the value is destroyed. It doesn't matter whether the chip is great if the compiler sucks.”
Bryan Catanzaro Jul 2, 2026 ▶ 1:12:14 Inside Nemotron & NVIDIA’s AI Lab | Bryan Catanzaro
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Feldman: Building a compiler realistically takes about 10 years
“It takes about 10 years. It takes a long time to build a compiler. Is an extraordinarily difficult piece of software.”
Andrew Feldman May 21, 2026 ▶ 12:22 The Story Behind Cerebras’ $63 Billion IPO with Founder and CEO Andrew Feldman
Anthropic builds custom compilers to maximize chip-level hardware flexibility
“We're building our own compilers. We're really building things from the chip level up in order to have that customization and that flexibility”
Krishna Rao May 13, 2026 ▶ 4:51 Inside Anthropic's $100 Billion Al Compute Commitment | CFO Krishna Rao · Invest Like The Best
Sohmers: Requiring workload recompilation creates fatal friction for AI chip adoption
“If you are requiring a user or having yourself as the company needing to actually recompile a workload, that's already one step too far, even if you assume it works perfectly.”
Thomas Sohmers Aug 18, 2025 ▶ 21:05 ⚡️Accelerators @ 3x NVIDIA H200 perf, Made in the USA - Thomas Sohmers + Mitesh Agrawal, Positron AI
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Sohmers: Positron AI requires zero compilers to run Hugging Face models
“So rather than having like, we don't have a compiler whatsoever. There's no compiler. There's no translator, no tooling that's involved in actually taking those and getting that to, you know, for your common, you know, Huggy Face Transform models to be able to…”
Thomas Sohmers Aug 18, 2025 ▶ 21:32 ⚡️Accelerators @ 3x NVIDIA H200 perf, Made in the USA - Thomas Sohmers + Mitesh Agrawal, Positron AI
Goyal: New Databases Succeed Only When Storage and Compilers Rewire Together
“So in my observation, database companies tend to succeed when the storage paradigm Is closely tied to the execution paradigm, and both of those things need to be rewired to work. I think, remember, the databases are not just storage, but they're also compilers…”
Ankur Goyal Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 1:16:44 Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
AWS VP: Pure LLMs Won't Deliver Effective AI Reasoning Without Other Tools
“Reasoning capability is not, if we view it as purely like everything is going to be LLM driven, we as industry are going to be very, very not satisfied. That's why it has to be actually more iterative. And we work with LLM as one of the ingredients. It is not …”
Swami Sivasubramanian May 1, 2024 ▶ 29:39 AWS VP of AI and Data Swami Sivasubramanian — GenAI's Growth Potential
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Compilers will automate complex kernel fusion within two years
“Maybe in a year or two, we'll, we'll have compilers that are able to do a lot of these optimizations for you, and you don't have to, for example, spend a couple months writing CUDA to get this stuff to work.”
Tri Dao Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 11:39 FlashAttention-2: Making Transformers 800% faster AND exact

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