Cooking fun AI systems & products @databricks. Prev: co-founder & CTO @ Hyperbolic, OctoAI (acquired by @nvidia) Apache TVM, PhD @ University of Washington.
Meituan, basically China’s DoorDash, trained a 1.6T parameter LLM on 50K Chinese chips.
It reminds me of Jensen Huang’s point on the Dwarkesh podcast: export controls on Nvidia GPUs won’t stop China. They’ll just accelerate the development of AI that runs on Chinese chips.