Cheeky Pint / episode intelligence
Speakers in the public record
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26 published records
01 / belief
“I was curious about the tape actually means. It feels like… When I think about AI predictions, one thing I'm really struck by is how, still in 2026, every time you open a chat window, it's contextless.”
02 / belief
“The product we aim to build is far ahead on throughput, but then, actually, the surprising thing is we're competitive with the best on latency as well. I think that is a unique thing in offering both in the same place.”
03 / uncertainty
“I don't know. The cost of a fab is extremely expensive. I recognize that also the cost of a lab is extremely expensive, too.”
04 / belief
“Our product is both training and inference, but I think the first sales will be an inference.”
05 / belief
“I think I remember that being quite like the classic manufacturing throughput problem.”
06 / belief
“There's a few aspects to that. I think the first one is pick your memory system right.”
07 / belief
“You typically, I think the average rates really depends on process and so on, but small single digit number of defects per chip.”
08 / belief
“I think hardware companies in general are really exciting because you have such a broad range of skills of people on the team.”
09 / belief
“Data centers, which I think is power, primarily a little bit of buildout, but primarily power and good infrastructure there.”
10 / belief
“If you say they're going to service it never, then I think you actually can get where you want to be, but maybe with 100% tax on reliability rather than 10%.”
11 / belief
“The Frontier Labs have done a pretty good job of exploring it, but I think, as the hardware changes, the shape of the model should change for sure.”
12 / belief
“There's what the Rust marketing will say, which is "safe without a garbage collection," which I think is a real… It is the objective thing that you can say is different, but sort of buries the lead, which is also just it's got nice type system features that Go doesn't have.”
13 / belief
“We think probably the main thing will be similar to where NVIDIA is at, which is 4-bit precision. But I think a mix of different precisions is useful for just when you look at the research, sometimes you want some layers in higher precision or lower precision, and so on.”
14 / belief
“I think so. I'll just comment, by the way, this is a great time to be a supplier in this place.”
15 / belief
“Whereas I think a company like Google or NVIDIA, the next chip has to work for sure.”
16 / belief
“More labs, I think, is still interesting. Just can we do more on model architecture is always interesting.”
17 / evaluation
“I think there's ultimately… At least for existing chips in the market, there's a really uncomfortable trade-off between latency and throughput.”
18 / prediction
“Parameter count should grow much faster than context length actually, just because of the underlying physics of what's available.”
19 / evaluation
“I think that's a pretty good fit because you have different parts of your company that are skilled at different areas, and it allows you to keep both of them occupied without having instead every 2 years doing a massive risk release.”
20 / evaluation
“What that means for us is that ecosystem already exists, and that way of operating, where you say, "I'm just going to staff a 50-person team to write software for this chip," works really well if you're trying to sell to frontier labs.”
21 / evaluation
“" Because the performance of software running on CPUs is really bad, but running on GPUs, or TPUs, or AI chips in general, actually that is the main focus.”
22 / evaluation
“There's this really cool technique called 'cuckoo hashing' where you hash into two different locations, and then you use the bucket which is less full. It's been in the literature for decades and yet the best hash table implementations don't use it because it's somehow not practical.”
23 / evaluation
“I think most ML researchers, especially of the time, were not super deep in what hardware wants, and what is… Mechanical sympathy is sometimes a term that's used for that.”
24 / evaluation
“More recent TPUs and more recent AI chips in general can't do that because the market has moved, and the table stakes are much higher.”
25 / evaluation
“I don't know if they've talked about this stuff publicly, but you know that their internal metrics similarly show that the faster the product page loads, the more people buy it.”
26 / prediction
“Exactly, the repair thing, it feels like, can be solved, because also, I think part of the bet, part of Elon's claim, is that we will just be so power-limited that you have no option but to go to space.”