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How to Power the AI Boom (Robert Nishihara, Co-Founder & CEO of Anyscale)
Nov 17, 2023
Robert Nishihara, Co-Founder & CEO of Anyscale, discusses building a distributed computing system for AI, the challenges of managing deployment models, hiring and building a team, importance of repetition and learning from founding stories, and optimism for the future of technology.
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Quick takeaways
- Anyscale aims to build the fastest and most cost-efficient infrastructure for running large language models (LLMs) and other AI applications, similar to how Microsoft was the underlying operating system for the PC era.
- Ray, an open-source compute framework developed at UC Berkeley, is being used by major organizations like OpenAI and Cohere, highlighting the growing prominence of open source models in AI infrastructure.
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The Rise of Generative AI
AI, specifically generative AI, is experiencing exponential growth and improvement, with models from Open AI and other sources rapidly advancing. The widespread adoption of multimodal models that integrate text, image, and video data is expected to lead to increased data intensity and infrastructure challenges. As the world moves towards multimodal models, the need for scalable compute and efficient infrastructure becomes paramount. Open source models are gaining prominence, and it is predicted that all models will soon reach a level of quality suitable for most applications.
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