Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee (CoreWeave) on Building an Industrial Scale GPU Cloud (EP.366)

CoreWeave's Brian Venturo (CTO) and Brannin McBee (CSO) return to On The Brink for a discussion of their journey through the merge and beyond. In this episode: 

• Are they relieved that the merge finally happened?
• Will there be some form of non-Bitcoin PoW in the future?
• Could Ethereum conceivably return to PoW?
• The effect of PoS on ETH’s censor resistance
• What quantity of ETH miners shifted to other PoW chains and what portion went elsewhere?
• What is the best use of capital for former ETH miners now?
• Did the merge really reduce global electricity consumption by 0.2%?
• Brannin’s estimate for precise electricity reduction from the merge
• How feasible is it for former ETH miners to get into GPU clouds?
• How Core Weave built their cloud product
• What it takes to be competitive in the high performance computing sector
• Why the generalized providers of cloud can’t just win when it comes to rendering and ML/AI
• Why the HPC market is exploding right now
• How open source communities behind text and image models contributed to the explosion in use cases
• The importance of Stable Diffusion versus Open AI
• The explosive growth of Stable Diffusion and Stability AI
• How the growth in infrastructure contributed to the emergence of these newer image models
• New directions in AI models like video creation
• Will generative AI be attacked by environmentalists?
• Can cloud data centers handle interruptible loads like Bitcoin miners can?
• How industrial compute will play a role in emerging metaverses
• Use cases Brannin and Brian are excited about
• Why hardware is actually a constraint to the number of metaverse users today

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