The Rise of Specialized AI Computing: CoreWeave's Journey

When can we expect quantum to reach consumer devices? In episode 45 of Mixture of Experts, host Tim Hwang is joined by special guest, Blake Johnson, to debrief the quantum noise in the news. Blake helps us understand the intersection between quantum and AI and how far we are from this technology. Then, veteran experts Chris Hay and Volkmar Uhlig hash out some other news in AI this week. We cover Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol, CoreWeave filing for an IPO and Sesame AI’s new voice companion. All that and more on today’s Mixture of Experts! 

00:01 – Intro  

01:06 – Quantum leap 

20:08 -- Model Context Protocol 

28:24 -- CoreWeave IPO 

40:12 -- Sesame AI voice companion 

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