Chintala: Inference Moats from Fast CUDA Kernels Last Only Months
Soumith Chintala · Open Source AI is AI we can Trust — with Soumith Chintala of Meta AI · Mar 6, 2024 · at 28:36
Meta AI Fellow and PyTorch creator Soumith Chintala explains why custom kernel optimizations do not offer durable defensibility for LLM inference startups.
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“I think, like, Together and Fireworks and all these people are trying to build some faster CUDA kernels and faster, like, you know, hardware kernels in general. But those modes only last for a month or two. Like, these ideas quickly propagate.”
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