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Modular CEO Chris Lattner on Raising $100M to Fix AI Infrastructure for Developers

Sep 13, 2023

Modular CEO Chris Lattner talks about revolutionizing AI infrastructure for developers. He shares his experiences at Apple, Tesla, and Google, emphasizing the complexity of AI. They discuss founding Modular to unify AI infrastructure and creating Mojo, a new programming language for AI developers.

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Quick takeaways

Modular aims to simplify AI infrastructure by focusing on the hardware software boundary and redesigning software layers to drive out complexity.

Modular's cloud compute platform aims to simplify AI infrastructure management by offering a scalable and reliable hosted solution.

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Modular's Approach to AI Infrastructure

Modular is a company that aims to tackle the AI infrastructure problem in a unique way. They focus on the hardware software boundary and redesign the layers of software and the serving components to drive out complexity from the system. Their philosophy is to have fewer things that work better, ensuring usability, programmability, and accessibility in the AI ecosystem. They take a hard tech approach, building compilers, runtimes, and working with TensorFlow and PyTorch internals. The goal is to provide a fundamental technology layer that simplifies AI infrastructure.

Introduction

3min

Journey in Software and AI

6min

Building a Hobby Project within a Company and the Journey of LVM

2min

The Fascination with Deep Learning and its Impact on AI Development

3min

Founding Modular and Unifying AI Infrastructure

5min

Creating Mojo: A New Programming Language for AI Developers

18min

In this episode, we dive into the story of Modular CEO Chris Lattner and his journey to founding Modular which is aimed at fixing AI infrastructure for developers. We explore the challenges in the current AI landscape and how Modular's solutions could revolutionize the way developers interact with AI technologies.

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