I talked to and screened most of the LLM infra startups in the W23 YC and touched base with many infra focused VCs to get their thoughts. A reflection🧵 on what's happening in the evolving LLMOps space.

Finally able to reserve an 8xA100 instance among all the craziness. Can’t thank Google Cloud for startups enough ❤️

best evening with some outstanding AI leaders — who happen to be women. as Fei-Fei Li said: as we enter a critical era for AI, with far-ranging applications and implications, the field needs more of these voices.

Huge congrats Sharon Zhou!! Can't wait to try it!

lauraf.bsky.social Maybe this is my chance to finally take a break

With members exploring the growing open source AI community in the SPC GenAI forum, we're excited to host a panel with Yann Dubois & Tianyi Zhang, core members of the Stanford team that made the Alpaca LLM. RSVP if you'd like to join! lu.ma/yann_tianyi_spc

Wisdom is hard and painfully won. I know many things today that I wish I had known years ago, but had to learn the hard way. And I'm sure I'm in for more of that in the years ahead.

Never forget where you came from

Groq is probably the most consequential AI company you haven’t heard of - but they’ve been working hard for years to build the fastest hardware for AI. From a commenter on Hacker News: “This is really impressive. For reference, inference for llama 70b on together’s api

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000

Thank you @gavinnewsom for vetoing SB1047 -- for siding with California Dynamism, economic growth, and freedom to compute, over safetyism, doomerism, and decline. 💪🚀✨

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Birth of a Groq Inc card here in Santa Clara, California 🇺🇸

The way we interact online is what AI will eventually learn. We are its parental examples. So...treat people the way you want AI to treat you?

Very useful for some chip architectures

The new President of Romania has 2 perfect score Gold medals on the International Math Olympiad (IMO), a feat only 25 people have ever achieved in history! First the pope, and now this. First they learn about higher dimensional spaces and then they excel in all of them.

Grateful to have been using Yutori for a few cases, great product!

When you tell engineers they can't do something, they often end up focusing on finding a way to do it (large models on Groq) Very proud of all our teams, Groq Inc.

Go time 🇺🇸

Who remembers the days we used to code like this?