PyTorch

9 statements across 6 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Sep 28, 2017 by Stefan Karpinski · said 84 times in 19 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Sep 28, 2017 negative
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Karpinski: Alternating language layers in AI frameworks prevents compiler optimizations
“They have what I've, I would describe as a sandwich problem, which is that you end up sandwiching a lot of system code with user code, and then, like, adding more and more layers of that, and as you've sandwiched, like, you know, seven or eight layers of that,…”
Stefan Karpinski Sep 28, 2017 ▶ 6:39 A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing
Jun 10, 2020 bullish
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Pesenti: Facebook is going end-to-end all-in on PyTorch
“We're definitely going all in as PyTorch, you know, end to end. So I think initially when we launched the Onyx strategy, it was more like a multi-framework world. And we had actually two framework internally between PyTorch and Cafe Two, but we're still suppor…”
Jerome Pesenti Jun 10, 2020 ▶ 55:46 Fireside Chat: Jerome Pesenti (Head of AI, Facebook) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Feb 1, 2021
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DoorDash standardized its core machine learning platform on LightGBM and PyTorch
“We landed on using a framework that enables tree-based models. And we picked light GBM for that after trying a few different packages and also deep learning. And for that, we then used PyTorch. And so we started with those two core libraries.”
Alok Gupta Feb 1, 2021 ▶ 6:29 Fireside Chat: Alok Gupta (Head of Data Science & ML, DoorDash) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Aug 9, 2023 positive
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Biewald: PyTorch beat TensorFlow through developer empathy, not eager execution
“I don't think they really, I think people tell this, the story of sort of the silver bullet. Of like you know, the eager execution model. But I think the reality is they just built a product with so much more empathy.”
Lukas Biewald Aug 9, 2023 ▶ 47:35 Startup to Industry Standard: Lukas Biewald Explains How W&B Scaled MLOps for OpenAI, NVIDIA & More
Mar 27, 2025 positive
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Lin Qiao: PyTorch's primary success lesson is that simplicity scales
“I think one of the biggest success we saw from the PyTorch experience is simplicity scales.”
Lin Qiao Mar 27, 2025 ▶ 16:26 Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI
Mar 27, 2025
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Lin Qiao: OpenAI switched completely from TensorFlow to PyTorch
“OpenAI switched to use PyTorch fully.”
Lin Qiao Mar 27, 2025 ▶ 8:00 Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI
Mar 27, 2025
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Lin Qiao: Meta had hundreds of engineers building PyTorch and its infrastructure
“We have hundreds of engineers building PyTorch and infrastructure around PyTorch, but at the same time, I believe PyTorch within Meta probably has thousands of users.”
Lin Qiao Mar 27, 2025 ▶ 19:23 Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI
Mar 27, 2025
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Meta spent five years rebuilding PyTorch's backend for internal scale
“It took us five years. Took us five years to get the stage supporting almost all internal needs using deep learning and mass and massive scale.”
Lin Qiao Mar 27, 2025 ▶ 6:48 Why This Ex-Meta Leader is Rethinking AI Infrastructure | Lin Qiao, CEO, Fireworks AI
May 7, 2026
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CMU undergrad AI course has students build an LLM from scratch
“You build a LLM completely from scratch. You use PyTorch, but you build one from scratch that, you know, can be a chatbot. You train it on data. You RL it to solve math problems with tool calls. You do all of this. And this is a undergrad level course.”
Zico Kolter May 7, 2026 ▶ 1:11:36 OpenAI Board Member Zico Kolter: Modern AI Is Just 200 Lines of Code
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