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TPU Deep Dive 1 year ago

Every major Cloud vendor is trying to develop their custom AI ASIC. Putting Google aside, Amazon has trainium/inferentia, which Anthropic uses quite extensively. Microsoft is doing sth. similar, although they are quite behind. OpenAI is doing it. Meta is doing it. That's why the stock price of Broadcom/Marvell soared.

If you are not a paying GCP user, there is really no point to even look at Vertex AI.

Just stick with AI Studio and the free developer AI along with it; you will be much much happier.

Really appreciate your team's enormous efforts in this direction, not only the cutting edge research (which I don't see OAI/DeepMind publishing any paper on) but aslo making the content more digestible for non-research audience. Please keep up the great work!

DeepSeek FAQ 1 year ago

High-Flyer is pretty damn rich actually. Someone did some calculation and it turns out they are spending ~$200m (somewhere in that range) on 150 employee compensation alone.

Trae.ai IDE 1 year ago

Are you comfortable to send your personal/company code data to a Chinese company (ByteDance)?

Trillium TPU Is GA 2 years ago

Exactly. Kind of like the old days when they put together a massive amount of commodity CPUs to build search.

Reformulation is a good strategy for many hard problems.

It might also be possible to add problem-specific cuts/heurstics to the solver so that it can solve it fast.

I was on CPLEX team for a few years. Core developers are all PhDs from Stanford/MIT and etc. So it's very hardcore stuff, no less than AI research.

Completely agree that size is not a good proxy for estimating MIP difficulties. Internally we colllected a bunch of very hard problems to sovle from different domains. Some are actually pretty small, say a few thousand variables/constraints. IMHO what made hard problems difficult to solve is actually the 'intneral structure' of the problems. And modern industry solvers all have a lot of built-in heurstics to take advantages of the structures, i.e., what kind of cuts, presolve/diving/branching strategy to apply, how to get the bounds ASAP.

Interestinglly at some point some folks even tried using machine learning to predict strategies. Didn't work quite well back then (10+ years ago). There was some work of using seq2seq for MIP (pointer network, I think) a few years ago; worked OK. So I'm really looking forward to some breakthroughs by LLM.

It's a shame that after IBM aquired ILOG (which owns CPLEX), most of the ppl left for Gurobi.

It's not their emails. It's all the ads you see on YouTube, display ads on random websites through Google/FB ads network, ads within xyz apps, and etc.. They spent a lot of $$$ on those ad networks.

Those are usually targeted through personal email addresses and device IDs. Impossible to opt out on users' end.

I emailed their customer support and asked them to stop targeting my email account in all their ads. They said they did, but I still got a ton of their ads afterwards. Anybody with ads experience would instantly know their ads targeting wasn't working great and they were wasting a sh*t ton of money.

One of the most annoying companies that ad spams like crazy in 2020/2021. i literally had to beg them to stop sending ads my way.

Now they are running out of money and have to cut staff. How ironic!