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Runway's enterprise clients include CBS, Google, Facebook, and Vox
“We help companies like CBS, Assembly, Google, Red Lab, Facebook, VaynerMedia, Vox, RGA, and countless other companies create better video content faster and literally at a fraction of the cost they're creating it today.”
Google-built Kubernetes is the standard across all cloud vendors
“Kubernetes clearly which was built by Google, is the standard now for doing this”
Delangue: Google called transformer adoption one of its biggest changes ever
“Google did a lot of PR a few months ago saying that moving to these new transformer models has been one of the most impactful changes that they'done over the last five years, if not since the beginning of Google.”
Google runs AdWords across five data centers to guarantee fault tolerance
“This isn't just sort of a, you know, a random example. This is how Google runs their AdWords system. With five data centers, and the reason is that you can actually have a planned maintenance on a data center, and actually have an unplanned, ah, outage on anot…”
Davis: Frame.ai is re-implementing Google's Sling framework
“We're kind of, we're fiddling with and re-implementing the Sling framework that came out of Google a couple of weeks ago we think there's a lot of opportunities there in terms of creative uses of neural networks to represent semantic frames at different timesc…”
Microsoft, Google, and IBM build computational services on Jupyter
“Many, many companies are actually building on top of this platform, ah, to build out, ah, computational services, including Microsoft, Google, IBM, Continuum analytics and more.”
Bloom: Netflix and Google build fault tolerance to handle ML errors
“Netflix and Google, some of the best machine learning companies in the world, and these are their core products, and they still make mistakes. Yet these are not fatal mistakes. They've built fault tolerance into the machine learning.”
Kimball: Google expanded its MySQL AdWords backend to 1,000 shards before replacement
“And I ran into this, like, really head first, like, into a brick wall when I got to Google in 2002, and they were using sharded MySQL in order to run their AdWords backend, and they went from, like, eight shards to 12 shards to 30 shards. By the time they repl…”
Kimball: Google ported 150 to 200 user-facing applications to Megastore by 2006
“By 2006, Google had moved away from it for building applications. By 2006, they published a paper called Megastore, and this system was something that a 150 to 200, I think applications that are externally facing Google were ported over to.”
AppNexus leveraged Google's trillion-word corpus for domain word-splitting algorithms
“The data here is the Google trillion word corpus, right, where they scrape the entire internet, look for the frequencies of all the different strings, including misspellings, right, and that basically gives you a probability of any given string being, like, a …”
Google, Qualcomm, and Nvidia are strategic investors in Clarifai
“We got some great investors like Google, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA who help power this technology for us.”
Google and Bing source their drug knowledge panels from FDA and HHS
“If you use a major search platform Google, or Bing, or others, and I guess a major search platform and you put in a drug name you'll see in the knowledge box, or knowledge panel, or something like that, you'll see a bunch of information, and sourced will be th…”
Gourley: Google includes Wikipedia on page one for 85% of common searches
“Google actually returns Wikipedia 85% of the time with the most common searches on the first page.”