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Catanzaro: Training data and compute matter more than AI model architecture
“The model is less important than the data. And the compute that goes into training the model. If you have a model that has really excellent compute properties that allows you to scale really well, efficiently to, you know, many thousand of GPUs, the kinds of r…”
Catanzaro: ChatGPT signaled an era where applied AI research dominates academics
“To me, that was a statement that we were entering a new era of AI where applied research starts to dominate, you know, so Chachapiti didn't come out with a fully fledged academic paper that described exactly what they did to make it so awesome. But because the…”
Catanzaro: Accelerated computing requires optimizing the full stack for key workloads
“Acceleration really is about specialization. It's about being able to focus and prioritize and say, this is the workload that matters most, and I'm going to optimize the entire stack for that workload.”
Catanzaro: Treat life like gradient descent by iterating rather than over-planning
“I think that you know, you could spend an awful lot of time trying to be very precise about what direction to go to make things better, but often the right thing to do is just make a guess, take a step, And then reevaluate what the best direction is next, and …”