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Shawn Wang: belief

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

“You got a whole bunch of GPUs. I think you disclosed somewhere, but I don't remember the exact number.”

— Shawn Wang

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Shawn Wang
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belief
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5 Jul 2024
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Latent Space

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…Yeah, I know, but I also think that like Like, for example if you were to join another, it would be like a very big tech experience again, right? I don't know, I felt like, the experience I get is very complementary to what I have that's the experience I had at Google, right? But if I were to join something else, right, then I wouldn't have, I would have just stayed at Google, to be honest. Because to me, it was very clear just two decisions that, that I didn't really I was talking to a bunch of other startups, but I didn't really actually had the intention to I was happy at Google, actually, to be honest. I'm sure, I'm sure they have a lot of things to keep you happy. I was happy at Google, yeah, actually. So, you describe yourself as GPU poor, but also you had 60 million dollars to play with. You got a whole bunch of GPUs. I think you disclosed somewhere, but I don't remember the exact number. And you had a good training run for Flash and Core and Edge. How would you tell that sort of story? Like, people can read the technical report. But also you know, what was that overall experience like? And you should also point people to the blog post that you wrote. There were a lot of interesting things that happened along the way that So I think I left around like early April, the end of March, April and everything, right? But most of our compute actually came in December, actually. And there were delays. So H100, there were major delays, right? So we were sitting around, right? And to be clear,…

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