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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where TensorFlow comes up on the MAD Podcast, Latent Space, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, the a16z Podcast, All-In
Model Mayhem, GPT-6 Astra, Why Nvidia Bought Hugging Face | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 15:51 John Coogan It was, it was delivered as a paper from Google, and, ah, and the paper was implemented in Google's TensorFlow framework, and people liked PyTorch, so the Hugging Face team converted BERT 2 times in the scene
AssemblyAI Now Handles 4x YouTube's Daily Volume
Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI · Y Combinator
Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity” · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:28 Alexandr Wang You have no idea what it looks like for groups of people to make decisions, and so I thought that was really important, and then going to school at MIT was actually really important because it just gave me a lot of, um, opportunity to…
Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA · Y Combinator
- ▶ 40:03 Jensen Huang If not for open, if not for Linux, if not for Kubernetes, if not for all of these, you know, platform, if not for, uh, TensorFlow or more important, uh, PyTorch, right?
Inside Nemotron & NVIDIA’s AI Lab | Bryan Catanzaro
- ▶ 14:30 Bryan Catanzaro Uh, first Copperhead, which was a, it was a, a Python, uh, embedded language that, um, compiled to the GPU, um, which I think foreshadowed a lot of things in TensorFlow and, and PyTorch.
AI is Already Building AI — Google DeepMind’s Mostafa Dehghani
- ▶ 37:08 Mostafa Dehghani Part of this code base based on TensorFlow, like tensor to tensor, it was the name of the code that's still there.
FULL INTERVIEW: Ben Thompson on Anthropic v. DoW
- ▶ 30:01 John Coogan Uh, the actual, uh, I mean, Google was a subcontractor on that project, and, uh, what they were actually exposing to the, uh, to the government was TensorFlow APIs
Reiner Pope of MatX on accelerating AI with transformer-optimized chips
- ▶ 1:09:53 Reiner Pope So the JAX team develops, uh, this is sort of Google's new, more modern version of TensorFlow or, um, competitive PyTorch.
The End of GPU Scaling? Compute & The Agent Era — Tim Dettmers (Ai2) & Dan Fu (Together AI)
- ▶ 15:22 Tim Dettmers One of us, TensorFlow, big step up.
No Priors Ep. 142 | With Harvey Co-Founder and President Gabe Pereyra
- ▶ 10:29 Gabe Pereyra I'm going to learn TensorFlow.
Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z
- ▶ 25:37 Amin Vahdat So, and we have these sorts of migrations, TensorFlow to Jaxx.
Forensic Account: The Bubble No One is Talking About | Anthony Scilipoti
- ▶ 37:30 Shane Parrish It's on Corey, TensorFlow, like the AMD equivalent, which is private now.
NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
- ▶ 36:11 Chamath Palihapitiya TPU, DeepBind, TensorFlow, GFS.
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:50:36 Ben Gilbert They also build TensorFlow.
Michael Truell: Building Cursor At 23, Taking On GitHub Copilot & Advice To Engineering Students · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:56 Michael Truell Great education in ML, um, partially because of our dumb naivete, where we didn't really know that there were things like Torch and TensorFlow and kind of other
Weekly Recap: Gwyneth Paltrow Saves Astronomer, Figma’s IPO, Top AI Researchers Ranked
- ▶ 22:17 John Coogan Built, uh, MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow.
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 2:34:10 Shawn Wang You can't just use VLLM and TensorFlow.
⚡️The Future of Notebooks - with Akshay Agrawal of Marimo
- ▶ 2:43 Akshay Agrawal It was a while ago, but I was an engineer on TensorFlow.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:00:46 David Rosenthal He also implemented the first version of AdWords, built AdSense, rewrote the core search pipeline five times, co-invented and implemented Bigtable MapReduce, TensorFlow, and Gemini.
The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular)
- ▶ 49:27 Chris Lattner TensorFlow, remember that? 3 times in the scene
Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI
Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:43 Andrew Feldman I think there is, there was a fundamental effort to disintermediate CUDA first by Google with TensorFlow and first by some grad students with CAFE and some of these early efforts, but later by Google with TensorFlow and then Facebook or… 2 times in the scene
DOGE vs USAID, Crypto Framework, Google's $75B AI Spend, US Sovereign Wealth Fund, GLP-1s
- ▶ 1:13:48 Antonio Gracias I think Google will also win, because they have, ah, their TensorFlow chips.
DeepSeek, Stargate Update, Bees Do Enjoy Honey, Golden Retriever Maxxing, Bring on the Trilly
- ▶ 51:21 John Coogan And so it's probably pretty easy to audit that, but, but, and I don't think, I don't think these models are fully like intelligent in the way that you could like bury
DeepSeek V3, SGLang, and the state of Open Model Inference in 2025 (Quantization, MoEs, Pricing)
- ▶ 20:36 unnamed speaker We have customers on, on based end that are using TensorFlow and we have ones that are using VL and we have a growing number that are using SGLang too.
Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
- ▶ 57:22 unnamed speaker You can't just use VLLM and TensorFlow.
[Paper Club] Weight Streaming on Wafer-Scale Clusters (w/ Sarah Chieng of Cerebras)
- ▶ 39:36 Sarah Chieng Um, okay, so the Cerebris Graph Compiler, um, the CGC right here integrates with machine learning frameworks, such as, such as TensorFlow and PyTorch.
Why Compound AI + Open Source will beat Closed AI — with Lin Qiao, CEO of Fireworks AI
Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- ▶ 1:57:01 John Coogan We're just allowing you to use our TensorFlow API, which is for their machine learning system.
The $4.5B Platform Driving the Open Source AI Revolution | Clem Delangue, CEO, Hugging Face
- ▶ 29:54 Clement Delangue From, ah, from Google, but, ah, but it kind of sucks because it's in, ah, TensorFlow, and, and most people today wanna use PyTorch.
Ep17. Welcome Jensen Huang | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 14:57 Jensen Huang Without QDNN, nobody talks about QDNN because it's one layer underneath PyTorch and, you know, and, and TensorFlow and back in the old days, CAFE and Theano and, and now Triton, and there's a whole bunch of different, different frameworks.
Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- ▶ 1:23:24 Ankur Goyal We're writing only TensorFlow before.
How to build a $400k/mo AI App using ASO, Organic Growth, and Paid Ads
- ▶ 0:41 Greg Isenberg TensorFlow?
He built a farming robot that shoots weeds with lasers— then closed $10M in pre-sales before ship... · PMF Show
- ▶ 3:56 Paul Mikesell Uh, it was right when TensorFlow was, was kind of the main framework, but PyTorch was starting to become a thing.
No Priors Ep. 65 | With Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang
- ▶ 1:06 Alexandr Wang Uh, where Google released TensorFlow.
This solo founder bet on AI 7 years ago. Now he has 5,000 customers & $115M raised. | Dylan, Foun... · PMF Show
Hollywood Producers FREAK OUT over AI | Cris Valenzuela, CEO of Runway
- ▶ 3:38 Cris Valenzuela Um, Image was working really well, not really well, sorry, um, like GANs were like the state-of-the-art thing at the time, but for me it wasn't really, um, like one algorithm or one technique, it was more when I started, like, delving into…
A Comprehensive Overview of Large Language Models - Latent Space Paper Club
- ▶ 24:12 unnamed speaker So, things like, um, the libraries that we're using, um, JAX, PyTorch, TensorFlow, amongst others, um, there's this idea of distributed training, which means that, um, can we use multiple GPUs to train our models so that we are able to…
- ▶ 38:17 unnamed speaker So, um, essentially what happens is that if you go to maybe say, um, TensorFlow datasets or Hugging Face, you'll be able to download them, um, and then you'll be able to observe, um, these datasets, uh, by itself.
The early days of AI on the grid
- ▶ 8:00 David Groarke Though that training data, those advances in the algorithms, and I think that the solution decline, cost decline, where, you know, vendors can leverage open source tools like TensorFlow or PyTorch and develop applications kind of quickly.
Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
- ▶ 10:35 unnamed speaker He mentioned when he was at Google, TensorFlow, it's trying to be optimized to make TPUs go brr, you know, and go as fast.
No Priors Ep. 53 | With AMD CTO Mark Papermaster
- ▶ 12:47 Mark Papermaster We're a founding member of a PyTorch foundation, whether it be Onyx, um, whether it be TensorFlow, we are out there very closely working with, uh, developers.
E165: Vision Pro: use or lose? Meta vs Snap, SaaS recovery, AI investing, rolling real estate crisis
- ▶ 1:08:54 Chamath Palihapitiya So for example, whenever, like, if you were using a lot of Google services, like GFS, Bigtable, BigQuery, you know, TensorFlow, the versions that you had access to via GCP was always one or two generations behind what the Google employees…
Ep 76: Accelerate or Die! Guillaume Verdon and the e/acc Movement · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 6:19 Guillaume Verdon Being approached by Google to prototype, really, what would a, a TensorFlow for quantum computing look like? 2 times in the scene
E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update
- ▶ 1:09:05 Chamath Palihapitiya So, TensorFlow, MapReduce, BigTable, Spanner, the guy is just an absolute animal.
The State of Silicon and the GPU Poors - with Dylan Patel of SemiAnalysis
- ▶ 11:08 Alessio Fanelli We had, um, Chris Landner on the show, which I know, you know, um, he used to work on TensorFlow and Google, and he did mention that 2 times in the scene
Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
- ▶ 1:03 Michael Royzen Um, I remember when, like, TensorFlow came out, and, like, people started talking about, oh, obviously at the time, the, um, after AlexNet, the deep learning revolution was already, you know, in flow, and, um, good computer vision models…
Why Google Never Shipped LaMDA Its ChatGPT Predecessor
- ▶ 6:36 Gaurav Nemade But around 2016, I think TensorFlow started becoming huge inside of Google and Google decided to open source TensorFlow as well. 2 times in the scene
The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
- ▶ 59:48 Jeremy Howard You know, and so this felt like, okay, I, you know, well, you know, what are you going to do? 4 times in the scene
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 43:31 Ben Gilbert Yep, and importantly, they've, at this point, are getting ready to release TensorFlow to the public, so they have a framework where people can develop for stuff, and they're like, look, if people are developing using our software,
- ▶ 2:09:53 Ben Gilbert You can just only get them through Google Cloud, and I think, I don't know if you have to use the TensorFlow framework, which has been waning in popularity relative to PyTorch,
RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era
- ▶ 4:30 unnamed speaker Yeah, ok so, and, and, ah, just to, and because I had this initial confusion, Brain.js, ah, has nothing to do with TensorFlow, even though I think both were run by Google? 2 times in the scene
Cris Valenzuela: AI Creators vs Hollywood Writers; How We Grew Runway into a $1.5B Company | E1054 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:17 Cris Valenzuela and so we were just building experiments and experiments over experiments and realizing that there was something here, something special, and then we started delving into image and video generation, and again, PyTorch was like a year old,…
Reinventing Search with AI: Richard Socher on Building You.com & the Future of Google
- ▶ 2:04 Richard Socher This was, you know, before there was high torch, before it was TensorFlow, uh, there are a few sort of smaller frameworks.
Startup to Industry Standard: Lukas Biewald Explains How W&B Scaled MLOps for OpenAI, NVIDIA & More
- ▶ 47:27 Lukas Biewald Like everyone thought TensorFlow had won. 3 times in the scene
Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp
- ▶ 5:33 Alessio Fanelli And they started from TensorFlow and then they, they made the chip after.
- ▶ 12:11 George Hotz Oh, you're gonna be, you're gonna be, you're gonna be diving down a long stack from Python to C to custom libraries to dispatchers to, and then I don't even know how to read TensorFlow. 3 times in the scene
Build and Deploy AI with Pytorch | Lightning AI Founder & CEO, William Falcon
- ▶ 2:15 William Falcon But, um, so, while I was working on that, I was basically, I started with Theano, and then I moved into TensorFlow, and then Keras, and what I always found was that everything was overly verbose, and very restrictive.
- ▶ 17:47 William Falcon Ah, the attention stuff would have been out there if the Anno hadn't been created, if TensorFlow hadn't been created.
No Priors Ep. 2 | With Runway ML’s Cristobal Valenzuela
- ▶ 9:02 Cristobal Valenzuela Like, TensorFlow was just perhaps a year old.
No Priors Ep. 7 | With Stanford Professor Dr. Percy Liang
- ▶ 4:46 Dr. Percy Liang So if you think about the last decade of deep learning, it has profited a lot from having a culture of openness with tools like PyTorch or TensorFlow, data sets that are open, people publishing openly about, uh, paper, about the research,…
E111: Microsoft to invest $10B in OpenAI, generative AI hype, America's over-classification problem
- ▶ 42:37 Jason Calacanis And then TensorFlow, which you have an investment in Chamath. 4 times in the scene
E106: SBF's media strategy, FTX culpability, ChatGPT, SaaS slowdown & more
- ▶ 1:26:18 Chamath Palihapitiya And custom silicon that they invented for TensorFlow at the time.
E105: Tech culture wars: Elon vs. SBF, Sabotaging Republicans with Trump
- ▶ 1:06:44 Chamath Palihapitiya You know, technical capability like GFS and Bigtable to things like TPU to things like TensorFlow, and all of that builds up all the things that DeepMind does, all the compute we have to throw against search to support that.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 1:42:45 Ben Gilbert And they were sort of inventing machine learning before machine learning, so a huge value prop of the cloud now is all your data's in the cloud, and that way you can use a bunch of stuff that Google invented, TensorFlow, Kubernetes, to run…
- ▶ 2:00:25 Ben Gilbert They run TensorFlow, which is funny because that's a thing that Google created.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 56:26 Brendan Eich We don't need TensorFlow or a cloud supercomputer to do this kind of machine learning.
Fireside Chat: Dave Burgess (Head of Data Engineering, Pinterest) w/ Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 16:05 Dave Burgess So we use TensorFlow from Google.
- ▶ 22:38 Dave Burgess And so we provide the, the glue and the underlying infrastructure, uh, with TensorFlow and PyTorch and all the, all the other components available to our internal customers.
Fireside Chat: Bindu Reddy (Founder & CEO, Abacus.AI) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 12:15 Bindu Reddy TensorFlow, of course.
Fireside Chat: Chip Huyen with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 7:01 Chip Huyen So I think by pretty, in, in, in, in, in, it's pretty much the competition is between like Pytosh and TensorFlow.
Fireside Chat: Jack Hanlon (VP Data, Reddit) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 9:45 Jack Hanlon For a variety of prod systems, we actually transit almost all that stuff over to GCP, and we use TensorFlow and BigQuery for our analytics and our model concerns for a variety of reasons that we could spend all of our time just talking…
Fireside Chat: Savin Goyal (ML Infra team (Metaflow), Netflix) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 16:18 Savin Goyal I want to see if they are on the TensorFlow versus PyTorch, like a whole bunch of different engineering related questions that,
Fireside Chat: Wes McKinney (Founder & CEO, Ursa Computing) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 3:00 Wes McKinney So extracting, uh, extracting features from, from data sets and kind of all of that, that munging and, and, uh, and, uh, data work that that's needed before you can feed the data into a machine learning model, you know, TensorFlow…
Fireside Chat: Alok Gupta (Head of Data Science & ML, DoorDash) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 5:40 Matt Turck So just, uh, again, reading through some of the stuff I've, I've seen XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, obviously TensorFlow and PyTorch on the, on the neural network, um, side.
E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
- ▶ 41:05 Chamath Palihapitiya Right now, I think what DeepMind has done is showed that specific, um, techniques of learning can overcome limitations in compute, but to your point, David, like, we're accelerating silicon at a fast enough speed where, you know, it's…
BrainTrust is Fiverr Owned by The Talent via Crypto Token
- ▶ 20:06 Adam Jackson Let's say they've got a big machine learning contract coming down the pipe, and they know they're going to need 10 TensorFlow engineers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:25 Adam Jackson Well, your grandma better be good at TensorFlow.
How to Resurrect Innovation in the Enterprise // Amr Awadallah, Google (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 31:08 unnamed speaker Um, are you able to, like, you guys just hired Chris Latner, and you're doing, you know, who's the father of Swift, and you're doing Swift with TensorFlow, and that seems to be a direction going forward in the future, and they, I'm using… 2 times in the scene
Ash Fontana – Investing in Artificial Intelligence at Zetta Ventures (First Meeting, EP.11)
- ▶ 1:03:36 Ash Fontana Another company called Bebop that sold to Google Cloud, and we invested a lot in tooling at the start of the fund, and then as we moved into the second fund, a lot of these big companies like Google released TensorFlow, and Amazon released…
Computing On Encrypted Data // Kurt Rohloff, Duality (Firstmark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 8:43 Kurt Rohloff Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, ah, machine learning models, and, ah, you know, even things as simple as regression and basic statistical type, um, analytics, and run analytics on data while it's encrypted. 2 times in the scene
Karn Saroya on the Capital-Light Way to Start an Insurance Business · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:34 Karn Saroya On the home side, it's a computer, so we use a TensorFlow-based camera to identify, catalog, uh, your property, um, so that when you need to make a claim, uh, there isn't much of a fuss that's put up by an adjuster.
CI/CD for Machine Learning & AI // Dillon Erb, Paperspace (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 2:35 Dillon Erb Uh, sort of, I don't think often about sort of the fundamental kind of algorithmic shifts that are happening, uh, in this space, but instead, uh, how do you go from training these models and doing amazing things with, you know, a hundred…
- ▶ 13:39 Dillon Erb I think if you want to use TPUs and TensorFlow and Google, you know, machine learning tools, then you can stay in that ecosystem.
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 1:27:27 Frank Chen The, the suite of interview questions you typically encounter when you're interviewing for jobs are about linked lists, and do you know TensorFlow, and can you program in Python, or whatever, as opposed to, what's good?
Better Together: Humanity + Machine Learning
- ▶ 45:00 Frank Chen Think about TensorFlow, which is Google's, ah, machine learning, ah, product.
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Cities -- Analogies
a16z Podcast | AI, from 'Toy' Problems to Practical Application
- ▶ 1:17 Scott Clark They have the tooling and the open source community has been huge in that with tools like MXNet and TensorFlow being widely adopted and productionalized.
a16z Podcast | A New Lab Rises
- ▶ 11:02 Ion Stoica With Kubernetes and others, they went, or TensorFlow,
a16z Podcast | The Changing Culture of Open Source
- ▶ 29:14 Sonal Chokshi I mean, even open sourcing TensorFlow.
a16z Podcast | Software Programs the World
- ▶ 13:58 Sonal Chokshi An example of the open source would be like TensorFlow, like Google releasing TensorFlow. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Artificial Intelligence and the 'Space of Possible Minds'
- ▶ 33:26 Azim Azhar Right, so TensorFlow. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Why Too Many People Give Up Too Quickly, Why You Should Never Start A Venture Without Owning The Underlying Data & Why We Have Over-Estimated The Ability of Automation with Dennis Mortensen, Founder & CEO @ X.ai
- ▶ 10:56 Harry Stebbings But I do want to ask then, given that there's a lot of talk about the standardization of tools, libraries, what TensorFlow allows, 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Mike Tuchen, CEO of Talend (TLND) (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 35:42 Mike Tuchen Um, and, you know, they were innovating with TensorFlow and so on, so they're betting behind that.
The Launch of Dataiku 5 // Florian Douetteau, Dataiku (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 20:35 Florian Douetteau So to give you some example, last year we added support for a Spark ML for machine learning, and we added support for TensorFlow with this release. 4 times in the scene
Cryptonetworks and Cities: Analogies
Fireside Chat: Chris Dixon, General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 7:27 Chris Dixon The, ah, you know, some of the best frameworks are free, like TensorFlow from Google.
- ▶ 14:37 Chris Dixon like, you can basically, the idea, yeah, that's not funny, so, uh, but, uh, that's, I guess, big passes for computer science jokes, so, um, but, uh, the idea is, though, that you can sort of, like, you know, you can download TensorFlow,…
A New Approach to Machine Intelligence // Ben Vigoda, Gamalon (FirstMark's Data Driven)
- ▶ 22:39 Ben Vigoda Um, it'd be like saying, you know, the only kind of deep learning is convolutional neural networks, and then we made TensorFlow, so we can make lots of different kinds of neural networks. 2 times in the scene
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