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Yi Tay: belief

5 Jul 2024 Latent Space The 10,000x Yolo Researcher Metagame — with Yi Tay of Reka

“Oh, no, no. So, so, so TPUs outside Google and t inside Google are probably very different things, I think.”

— Yi Tay

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Speaker
Yi Tay
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
5 Jul 2024
Publisher
Latent Space

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…I think you addressed this in your post, but the temptation would have been just to run everything on TPUs. Which is the stack that you already know very well. That that works very well. Oh, no, no. So, so, so TPUs outside Google and t inside Google are probably very different things, I think. Oh, how come? Okay. First thing is like infrastructure. Like, there was, there wasn't like a lot of good code bases like outside Google that was like still, right. And, and the code base that I was most familiar with was like T five X. It was a jack space. It would have been like, by, by the time we wanted to consider it, it was really like. Debrigaded for nine months, right? And then, TPUs I mean, we weren't sure about I mean, the availability of TPUs was not great, great. Oh, my perception is that it was a lot better. People have the learning curve.…

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