Will Falcon is the CEO and co-founder of Lightning AI, a platform that enables users to quickly build and publish ML models.
In this episode, Will explains how Lightning addresses the challenges of a fragmented AI ecosystem and reveals which framework PyTorch Lightning was originally built upon (hint: not PyTorch!) He also shares lessons he took from his experience serving in the military and offers a recommendation to veterans who want to work in tech.
Show notes (transcript and links): http://wandb.me/gd-will-falcon
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⏳ Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:00 From SEAL training to FAIR
04:17 Stress-testing Lightning
07:55 Choosing PyTorch over TensorFlow and other frameworks
13:16 Components of the Lightning platform
17:01 Launching Lightning from Facebook
19:09 Similarities between leadership and research
22:08 Lessons from the military
26:56 Scaling PyTorch Lightning to Lightning AI
33:21 Hiring the right people
35:21 The future of Lightning
39:53 Reducing algorithm complexity in self-supervised learning
42:19 A fragmented ML landscape
44:35 Outro
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Connect with Lightning
📍 Website: https://lightning.ai
📍 Twitter: https://twitter.com/LightningAI
📍 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pytorch-lightning/
📍 Careers: https://boards.greenhouse.io/lightningai
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💬 Host: Lukas Biewald
📹 Producers: Riley Fields, Anish Shah, Cayla Sharp, Angelica Pan, Lavanya Shukla
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