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Barrett: Moore's Law Is Not Dead, Merely Resting
“We are not at the end of Moore's law. It's not dead. It's merely resting. There are ways of doing computation hitherto unimagined, right?”
Barrett: Transformers Are Not the End State of AI
“Transformers are not the end state of AI, right? AI is Embarrassingly stupid compared to many of the examples we are carrying around in our heads, both in terms of what it can achieve, but also how much power it uses to do it.”
Barrett: Superconducting Logic Can Boost Compute Productivity 100x to 1,000x
“That things like superconducting logic stand you know, give us the opportunity to increase productivity of computation by factor of a hundred, factor of a thousand.”
Barrett: Playground Backed Nervana for Writing Nvidia Microcode Better Than Nvidia
“We were lucky enough to host Naveen back in the day when it was Nirvana Systems, where we first invested because he, those guys were doing, before they had hardware, they were doing NVIDIA microcode better than NVIDIA was.”