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Epstein: Sentient runs AI across millions of CPUs and thousands of GPUs

John Epstein · 666: Sentient $100M+ Raised, A/B Testing With Artificial Intelligence with Exited Founder and SVP Jon Epstein · May 21, 2017 · at 11:36

Jon Epstein, SVP at Sentient Technologies, discusses the architecture of Sentient's distributed artificial intelligence platform with Nathan Latka.

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“It's able to run, you know, AI problems across millions of CPUs and thousands of GPUs using a proprietary distributed computing middleware layer.”

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