hardware

7 statements across 5 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 5 people on the record · first statement Aug 3, 2023 by Tri Dao · across every show →

Everything said about hardware, oldest first

Aug 3, 2023
Insight
Multi-year hardware cycles make betting on future AI architectures difficult
“Hardware has, my understanding is has a kind of a longer time scale. So you need to design hardware, you need to manufacture it, you know, maybe on the order of three to five years or something like that. So you know, people are taking different bets but the, …”
Tri Dao Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 40:02 FlashAttention-2: Making Transformers 800% faster AND exact
Aug 3, 2023
Insight
Hardware and software co-evolve to favor dominant AI architectures
“There is this feedback loop where somehow The model architectures that take advantage of hardware become popular, and the hardware will also kind of evolve to optimize a little bit for that kind of architecture, and software framework software frameworks will …”
Tri Dao Aug 3, 2023 ▶ 36:22 FlashAttention-2: Making Transformers 800% faster AND exact
Mar 6, 2024 neutral
Opinion
Chintala: Robotics requires engineering work rather than fundamental breakthroughs
“My view is actually hardware is still the bottleneck, and AI is also a little bit of bottleneck, but, like, I don't think there's any, like, obvious breakthroughs we need. I think it's just work.”
Soumith Chintala Mar 6, 2024 ▶ 1:22:36 Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI
Dec 24, 2024 neutral
Insight
Fu: Efficient AI Architectures Are Dead on Arrival Without Hardware Co-Design
“Even if your model is theoretically more efficient, if somebody goes and runs it and it's two times slower one of the things that, that we've learned is that if you're in that situation, it's just going to be dead on arrival. So you want to be designing your a…”
Dan Fu Dec 24, 2024 ▶ 15:51 2024 in Post-Transformer Architectures: State Space Models, RWKV [Latent Space LIVE! @ NeurIPS 2024]
Apr 27, 2026 positive
Insight
Ludwig: Deep curiosity in software inevitably leads down to hardware
“If, and if you get, Curious enough about software, you ultimately end up in hardware, right?”
Peter Ludwig Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 1:12:36 The $15B Physical AI Company: Simulation, Autonomy OS, Neural Sim, & 1K Engineers—Applied Intuition
Apr 27, 2026 negative
Opinion
Ludwig: Physical AI companies cannot afford software engineers who ignore hardware
“Definitely in the vibe coding era, there are a crop of engineers that they don't think about hardware at all, and we don't have that luxury.”
Peter Ludwig Apr 27, 2026 ▶ 1:08:40 The $15B Physical AI Company: Simulation, Autonomy OS, Neural Sim, & 1K Engineers—Applied Intuition
Aug 3, 2026
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Most open AI research labs avoid hardware-specific model architecture optimization
“Most open labs are trying to make models that can be run on as wide of hardware as possible rather than targeting just like a single chip.”
Philip Kiely Aug 3, 2026 ▶ 57:10 Next 100x in AI: Inference, Networking, & Self-Optimizing Models — Philip Kiely & Ali Taha, Baseten
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