Biewald: PyTorch beat TensorFlow through developer empathy, not eager execution
Lukas Biewald · Startup to Industry Standard: Lukas Biewald Explains How W&B Scaled MLOps for OpenAI, NVIDIA & More · Aug 9, 2023 · at 47:35
Lukas Biewald is the co-founder and CEO of Weights & Biases. He analyzes why Meta's PyTorch surpassed Google's TensorFlow as the dominant machine learning framework.
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“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.”
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