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Chintala: George Hotz's TinyGrad requires major breakthroughs to match PyTorch
“There's no, like, I don't think, like, unless we have, like, great breakthroughs, like, George's vision is achievable, like, or, like, he should be thinking about a narrower problem, such as, I'm only gonna make this for, like, work for self-driving car con ne…”
Chintala: Apple's MLX will fail server-side due to lack of differentiation
“If they end up expanding onto the server side, and they'll probably build something like PyTorch as well, right? Like, eventually, that'll where it will land. And I think there, they will kind of fail on the, like, lack of differentiation. Like, it wouldn't be…”
Chintala: LLM inference market will become a low-margin laundromat business
“My view of the LLM inference market in general is that it's like the laundromat model. Like you, the margins are going to drive down towards the bare minimum, like It's gonna be all kinds of arbitrage between how much you can get the hardware for, and then how…”
Chintala: Aggregate open source AI model usage rivals GPT
“Maybe open source models are being as used as GPT is at this point in, like, all kinds of, in a very fragmented way. Like, in aggregate, all the open source models together are probably being used as much as GPT is. Maybe, you know, close to that.”
Chintala: Centralized feedback could trigger open source runaway over OpenAI
“If that central sinkhole is there, who's gonna go coordinate all of this integration across all of these, like, open source frontends? But I think if we do that, if that actually happens, I think that probably has a real chance of the open source models having…”
Chintala: Open source cannot beat Google's feedback distribution advantage
“Probably doesn't have a chance against Google, because, you know, Google has Android, and Chrome, and Gmail, and Google Docs, and everything, you know. So people just use that a lot.”
Chintala: Path to AGI will be continuous, not a sudden threshold
“The whole process of, like, how we think we got to AGI will be continuous and not, like, not discontinuous”
Chintala: Home robotics is five to seven years away from commercialization
“Home robotics being, like, five to seven years away into commercialization. I think, like, It's not, like, next year or two years from now, but, like, five to seven years from now, I think, like, a lot more robotics companies might pop out.”
Chintala: Less than 1% of open source AI usage yields feedback
“But the amount of feedback that is driving back into the open source ecosystem is, like, negligible. Maybe less than one percent of, like, the usage.”
Chintala: Meta will have over 600k H100 GPU equivalents by end of 2024
“That is by the end of this year, and 600 K H-One hundred equivalents. With 250 K H-one hundreds and including all of the other GPU or accelerator stuff, it would be 600 and something K aggregate capacity.”
Chintala: No AI company currently feels they have sufficient compute
“If you don't have enough compute, you figure out how to make do with smaller models, but like, no one as of today, I think, would feel like they have enough compute. I don't think, like, I've heard any company within the AI space be like, oh yeah, like, we fee…”
Chintala: In 50 years, remote smell will accompany digital media
“50 years from now, it would be pretty obvious to, like, kids of the generation to just, like, you know, I guess I was saying, I was gonna say roll a reel on their phone, maybe phones will be, they're just like, you know, on their glasses, they're watching some…”
Chintala: PyTorch is used in Mars rover simulations, drug discovery, and Tesla
“It's used in Mars rover simulations, to drug discovery, to Tesla cars, and there's a huge diversity of, like, applications in which it is used in.”
Chintala: CERN uses PyTorch and GANs for particle physics research
“I think the scariest was when I went to visit CERN at some point, and they said they were using it, PyTorch, and they were using GANs at the same time for, like, particle physics research, and I was scared more about the fact that they were using GANs than the…”