S3 E13 Stephen Balaban from Lambda on building the most cost-effective AI cloud

What's in this episode:

00:00:00 Stephen Balaban
00:01:20 Sponsors: Index Ventures and Weights and Biases
00:02:27 Lambda
00:03:05 GPU demand and shortages
00:08:29 How Lambda can offer the most GPU flops per dollar
00:11:38 What are the underlying costs
00:13:03 Competing with the big 3: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
00:15:57 Decision to focus on Deep Learning
00:20:52 Plans with recent big funding round
00:27:47 AI compute work loads
00:29:10 Open Source models
00:38:38 Deep Learning is the future of gaming
00:44:45 How does Stephen relax

Guest links:
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  / lambdaapi  

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Host: Pieter Abbeel -- https://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~pabbeel
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