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Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast — Practitioners talking LLMs, CodeGen, Agents, Multimodality, AI UX, GPU Infra and all things Software 3.0

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The Discovery of Kernel Fusion in Machine Learning

The IO awareness is probably one of the biggest innovation here. The idea behind it is, like you mentioned, the flops growth of the cars have been going on, but the memory bandwidth, not as much. So talk a bit about how that came to be as an idea. It was somehow at the intersection of both machine learning and systems. You needed ideas from both sides.

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