The Future of AI Compute: A Conversation With Jonathan Ross
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How to build great AI hardware, large language models, and implications for the key players in AI
On Friday, I hosted a Space with Jonathan Ross, the founder and CEO of Groq - a company I invested in that is building custom chips for AI inference. Jonathan, a former high-school dropout, entered the chip industry while working on ad optimization at Google’s New York office. Jonathan overheard the speech recognition team complaining that they couldn't get enough compute. So he asked for some budget from Google and started putting together a chip-based machine learning accelerator for them. During the day, Jonathan would work in the normal ads part of the business, and at night, he would…
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