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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Lambda Labs comes up on the MAD Podcast, Latent Space, TBPN, Acquired, Catalyst
Inside the AI power wars
- ▶ 22:19 Jeremy Eliahu-Ontiveros Uh, so they invested in CoreWeave, they invested in Navias, in Lambda, and a bunch of others.
The GPU Myth: State of AI Compute 2026 | Stephen Balaban
- ▶ 0:39 Matt Turck My guest today is Steven Balaban, co-founder and CTO of Lambda, one of the top NeoClouds powering the AI boom. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36 Matt Turck Uh, and if you fast forward to today, it seems to be exactly the opposite, both Lambda, uh, but several of your competitors seems to be, uh, absolutely a ripping.
- ▶ 4:12 Matt Turck How much of, uh, the competitive advantage that, uh, you guys are building and other players are building is based on technology versus a financing, uh, race. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:45 Matt Turck Where's the main bottleneck these days that you're experiencing building Lambda Labs?
- ▶ 18:46 Stephen Balaban And so one of the things that we do at Lambda is really try to figure out, hey, how can we sort of get the most dollar utilization and percentage utilization out of 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:34 Stephen Balaban So Lambda really loves Nvidia's products.
- ▶ 29:35 Stephen Balaban And so Lambda offers the, the basically AI optimized file system service that is, um, significantly faster than like your standard, let's say cloud file system, which is maybe more of a traditional NFS type of thing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:38 Stephen Balaban So like we're getting to full vertical integration at Lambda and it's been, it's been great because we've been able to kind of, again, bring that engineering mindset to this problem, which was historically mostly run by people in real… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:09 Stephen Balaban And on the on-demand cloud, you're kind of looking at Lambda's credit quality. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:16 Stephen Balaban And you can see why we've oftentimes not had a lot of traditional venture investors in, in Lambda. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:39 Stephen Balaban I got very lucky that the AlexNet paper had been published the same year that Lambda was founded. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:28 Stephen Balaban yeah, Lambda's got a absolutely wild, uh, founding story. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:27 Stephen Balaban And, uh, then he eventually, uh, left and, and joined another former Lambda team member, Thomas Summers to start Positron, which is, um, uh, an accelerator company. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:54 Stephen Balaban And, you know, kind of working to say like, Hey, I want Lambda to be this sort of vertically integrated high velocity powerhouse that 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:02 Matt Turck And when you say you, is that, is that Lambda or is that, is that? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:06:17 Stephen Balaban Well, I mean, a lot of the engineers at Lambda are already, you know, doing a fully agent-driven workflow.
The rise of flexible data centers
- ▶ 29:47 Varun Sivaram That tenant might be one of the many folks we've partnered with, like Nebius, for example, or Oracle, or Lambda.
AI Is Coming for Your Memes, Crypto’s Quantum Clock, Axios Hack| Diet TBPN
- ▶ 20:42 John Coogan And let me also tell you about Lambda. 2 times in the scene
The Axios Supply Chain Attack Explained
- ▶ 17:07 unnamed speaker And let me also tell you about Lambda. 2 times in the scene
Karpathy's "autoresearch" broke the internet
- ▶ 21:19 Greg Isenberg You know, you can, so you can rent an NVIDIA GPU from a service like Lambda Labs, Vast AI, RunPod, or Google Collab.
FULL BREAKDOWN: Trump BANS Anthropic
- ▶ 23:59 John Coogan And let me also tell you about Lambda. 2 times in the scene
Becoming Unsloppable, Anthropic’s Series G, The Mansion Section | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:39 Jordi Hays You have hardware, NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Cisco, Broadcom, SK Hynix, Western Digital, data centers, so NeoClouds, things like CoreWeave, Lambda, social networks, YouTube, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, even thinking Roblox, right?
Become Unsloppable: How to Survive the Great Software Collapse
- ▶ 8:32 Jordi Hays Data centers, so neoclouds, things like CoreWeave, Lambda.
Elon’s go-to banker leads SpaceX IPO, SaaSination, Bejing’s robot Boom | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 6:33 unnamed speaker Uh, a Neo lab that's trying to solve continual learning, or some, you know, unsolved problem in AI research, or should you think about them more like a hyperscaler, like an AWS, or like a core weave, or like a Lambda, like a Neo cloud…
Super Bowl Ad Reactions, ChatGPT launches ads, Jordi vs France | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:11 John Coogan The Lambda lightning round, et cetera.
Anthropic's secret strategy behind its Super Bowl ad campaign
- ▶ 11:11 John Coogan I have a rebuttal, but I'm going to tell you about Lambda. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic Declares War on OpenAI in Scrappy Super Bowl Ads
- ▶ 22:17 unnamed speaker Uh, let me tell you about Lambda. 2 times in the scene
🔬 From Red Teaming GPT-4 to Automating Drug Discovery: The Future of AI in Science — Andrew White
- ▶ 45:50 Andrew White But, like, ah, you know, you can imagine that you can just, Modal or Lambda or Tamarind or ThreeTen, there's all these companies that basically wrap a lot of these, these, like, um,
The Future of Everything: What CEOs of Circle, CrowdStrike & More See Coming in 2026
- ▶ 1:42:46 Chase Lochmiller Uh, yeah, Lambda.
Wednesday’s Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:18 Jordi Hays Satya signaled that he's open to buying, uh, capacity from neoclouds, like Oracle, Nebius, Lambda, Iron, N-Scale.
Howard Morgan on AI, Global Venture Investing & Founder Insights | NVCA Award Recipient Series
- ▶ 5:31 Howard Morgan We're investors in Lambda Labs, which provides access to the big NVIDIA chips to, to many companies.
⚡️Accelerators @ 3x NVIDIA H200 perf, Made in the USA - Thomas Sohmers + Mitesh Agrawal, Positron AI
- ▶ 0:32 Shawn Wang I think, I think mostly Lambda Labs, but also a little bit of Grok. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:53 Thomas Sohmers Going all the way back to my, my DSP work to, uh, uh, you know, the time at Lambda, et cetera, seeing that the kind of way that the whole industry had been going for the, you know, the decade before ChatGPT was not really going and, you…
Weekly Recap: Grok 4 Launch, Texas Floods, Web Browser War, Top Signals, Meta Smart Glasses
- ▶ 42:09 unnamed speaker Runpod, Lambda, Scaleway, SMC, Azure, Nebius, Together, Crusoe, Lepton, Oracle, Coreweave, AWS.
Larry Aschebrook, Founder & MP @GSquared: How We Lost Money on Uber and Made Millions on Lyft · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:27:36 Larry Aschebrook That's why we have Lambda.
SF Compute: Commoditizing Compute
- ▶ 16:34 Evan Conrad Um, I'm going to start by clarifying that all of these businesses are excellent and fantastic, um, that Together and DigitalOcean and Lambda, I think are wonderful businesses who do, um, like build excellent products.
- ▶ 22:06 Evan Conrad We just, like, assumed we could go to, like, Lambda, um, or something, and, like, buy thousands of, at the time, A-One-Hundreds.
Can Neysa be India's AI Cloud alternative to AWS, Azure & Google Cloud? | Sharad Sanghi
- ▶ 15:47 Sharad Sanghi And we've seen successes of companies like Coreweave and Together and Lambda Labs in the US that have done that very successfully.
Why Compound AI + Open Source will beat Closed AI — with Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI
- ▶ 22:58 Shawn Wang I think I want to restate the value proposition of fireworks for people who are comparing you versus like a raw GPU provider, like a run pod or Lambda or, you know, anything like those, which is like you create the developer experience…
Can AI Infrastructure Work Like Magic? Erik Bernhardsson, CEO, Modal
- ▶ 0:14 Matt Turck More recently, there's been a bunch of newfangled, I call them like the alt clouds, CoreWeave, Lambda, and covered Modal in terms of product use cases.
- ▶ 2:45 Matt Turck Nvidia, Model Labs, Grok, Lambda, CoreWeave, all those companies.
- ▶ 4:22 Erik Bernhardsson More recently, there's been a bunch of sort of new newfangled, I call them like the alt clouds, uh, core weave, uh, lambda,
- ▶ 34:14 Erik Bernhardsson I'm just going to go deploy it directly on like whatever Lambda Labs or something like that.
llm.c's Origin and the Future of LLM Compilers - Andrej Karpathy at CUDA MODE
- ▶ 13:41 Andrej Karpathy Shout out to Landapp, our sponsor, 2 times in the scene
The $9B Startup Going After Snowflake and Databricks | Renen Hallak, CEO of VAST Data
- ▶ 20:39 Matt Turck So the, the hyperscalers, but also the more specialized GPU players, so the Core Waves, the Lambda.
6 Questions Founders Should Ask Themselves to Drive Value from Generative AI with Base10 Partners
- ▶ 7:22 Lucy Fonseca And on the upstart side, we've spent time with great businesses like Lambda, Pinecone, and Langchain might also ring a bell.
Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal
- ▶ 56:01 Erik Bernhardsson I, I think, I mean, there's definitely a long tail of like, you know, CoreWeave, Hetzner, yeah, like, um, uh, Lambda, like all these things.
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:12:47 David Rosenthal Also, CoreWeave and Lambda Labs, if you've heard of them, these are all new GPU-dedicated clouds that NVIDIA is working closely with.
- ▶ 1:21:53 David Rosenthal So today, like we've been saying, if you want to use H-one hundreds and A-one hundreds, say you're an AI startup, the way you're probably going to do that is you're going to go to a cloud, either a hyperscaler or a dedicated GPU cloud like…
- ▶ 2:24:10 David Rosenthal Lambda Labs exists.
Chasing Silicon: The Race for GPUs
- ▶ 7:37 Guido Appenzeller You know, we've seen that the startups typically are more likely to go with specialized clouds, you know, like CoreWeave or Lambda, right, that are basically specialized in providing AI infrastructure to startups.