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Howard: JAX was a grassroots Google reaction against TensorFlow 2
“But I mean, in the meantime, I will say, you know, Google now does have a backup plan. You know, they have JAX, which was never a strategy. It was just a bunch of people who also recognized TensorFlow two as shit, and they just decided to build something else.”
Jeremy Howard Oct 20, 2023 ▶ 1:01:58 The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
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Yi Tay: AI researchers should stay framework-agnostic instead of mastering one stack
“I don't think there's any specific thing. In fact, I will try to be as, like, agnostic, like, I don't, like, I don't really say, like, okay, you need to learn JAX, you need to learn this, by the time you finish learning, there's a new framework out, anyway. So…”
Yi Tay Jul 5, 2024 ▶ 40:34 The 10,000x Yolo Researcher Metagame — with Yi Tay of Reka
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Huang: Berkeley's JAX Ring Attention does not work well on GPUs
“The Jaxx implementation just does not work on, on GPUs very well. Like, any naive setup that you do, like, it just won't run out of the box very easily”
Mark Huang May 31, 2024 ▶ 26:02 How to train a Million Context LLM — with Mark Huang of Gradient.ai
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