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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.”
Dixon: 80% accurate ML models take a weekend; the rest takes decades
“You can sort of, like, you know, you can download TensorFlow, download some data sets, and over the weekend, probably come up with, you know, if you're a good programmer, come up with something that can do, like, 80% accuracy of whatever, let's say OCR or some…”
Falcon: Modern generative AI would not exist without open-source research
“None of this wouldn't exist if Google hadn't put published transformers and put the paper out there, right? None of this would have existed if Ah, the attention stuff would have been out there if the Anno hadn't been created, if TensorFlow hadn't been created.”
Oppenheimer: TensorFlow is open source, but scaling it is not
“TensorFlow is open source, but actually scaling it is not.”
Hoffman: TensorFlow is one of the top 10 innovations of the past decade
“In my opinion, it's one of the top 10 innovations in, in the last 10 years.”
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,…”