Beamer's Video Processing Revolution | 5min snip from Everyday AI Podcast

Speaker 1
You can enjoy all of them. All right. David, thank you so much. So if you want to see more from Expander, let us know. And now let's take a look at another startup. Y'all, these are some good ones. All right. We have our next NVIDIA Inception startup. We have Sharon here from Beamer. Can you tell us a little bit about Beamer? Sure. Beamer built a technology
Speaker 4
to optimize video at large scale and it primes on NVIDIA GPUs. So we gain acceleration for video encoding from NVIDIA GPU, a component called NVENC, the NVIDIA encoder. And we make it so much better. We make it efficient by about 40% on average or 30 to 50% depends on the use case. And what you get is that you can take this huge video repositories for autonomous vehicles or for user generated content or media and entertainment and make
Speaker 1
them so much more efficient running on NVIDIA GPUs. Okay. What would you say is the one biggest problem that you solve for your customers or clients?
Speaker 4
I think that every customer that has large volume of video, then all of the associated cost of the video handling has to do with the tonnage, with the amount of videos. So think about that cost, half size. Okay. You know, that's a huge benefit. Okay. So who is your average customer or client at Beamer? So we are approaching three different markets. One of them is the traditional markets that we've been there forever is the media and entertainment market. And now thanks to the NVIDIA accelerated platform, we can also actually approach markets that much larger volume. One of them is autonomous vehicles, which you can see over here. In order to train an average model for autonomous vehicles, you need 100 petabytes of video. Now think 50 petabytes. Okay. That's a big deal. Yeah. Right. With user generated content, we're talking about about 80 to 100 many years of video captured every day. These are hundreds of millions of video clips, short video clips. I think about that, you know, distribution, the amount of networking that it requires. 50% of the internet out there is occupied with video. So think about that, half the size.
Speaker 1
Yeah, so who is your average client? And are you mainly working with large enterprise, smaller startups, a little bit of both? Who is your average client or customer?
Speaker 4
Traditionally, larger enterprises. But as of a year ago, we launched what is called Beamer Cloud. So we have a cloud service available on AWS and OCI, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. And that means that everybody, you know, can use it with a very low friction. You open an account with your email and,
Speaker 1
you know, you can start working. Very easy. No code. Very cool. Yeah, you got to love no code and saving time, right? So the NVIDIA Inception program,
Speaker 4
how has that helped your success so far at Beaver? Cool. I don't know where to start. So last year, we've been a part of the Inception program and we are now graduate of the inception program so at the very beginning i think you know having the envelope of the inception program was huge for being there because you are actually coming to a place where everybody comes to see what's new and it is pretty much you know hosted by nvidia so everybody comes toVIDIA and what's new, and then you're right there. So the opportunity is mind-blowing. So that's the initial benefit. But also, you know, helping us to take the word out there and helping us with introduction to prospective customers. Okay, NVIDIA is an amazing ecosystem. It works like a huge startup. So, so many opportunities coming our way and every Inception member way. And this is amazing. And now, you know, being a graduate of the Inception program, you know, we are also benefiting, you know, from, for example, being, getting additional exposure for Inception when they are now offering, you know, all of their partners to get promoted if we are offering discounts to newcomers to the platform. So there was a platform launch just to date, and we're part of that announcement. Yet another big thumbs up to Inception. Love it. All right. And last question here. If someone listening out there is like,
Speaker 1
oh, wait, I think I need Beamer.

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