Piantino: Spell built custom deep learning hardware alongside public cloud support
Serkan Piantino · Make AI Less Mysterious // Serkan Piantino, Spell (FirstMark's Data Driven) · May 18, 2018 · at 19:29
Serkan Piantino, founder and CEO of Spell, discusses the compute infrastructure powering Spell's machine learning platform during a fireside Q&A with Matt Turck at Data Driven NYC.
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“We have our own hardware, which we built custom purpose for doing deep learning. But we also can use resources on any of the public clouds.”
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