Naveen Rao: 4D Computing, AI's Energy Wall & Beating Biology
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Naveen Rao: 4D Computing, AI's Energy Wall & Beating Biology

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 21, 202622 min
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(0:00) Welcome Naveen Rao (4:45) Is energy really the problem? The cost of a token, power contracts & the gap to close (10:24) Cutting out the middleman: abstractions, dynamical systems & a new kind of machine (19:46) Chamath joins: the path to product, porting existing models & building the team Thanks to our partners for making this possible! IREN is a vertically integrated AI Cloud platform, delivering data centers, compute and software for AI training and inference. https://iren.com/ Oracle connects the data, applications, and infrastructure that turn AI into business out...

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Naveen Rao, co-founder and CEO of Unconventional AI, which is an AI chip startup. Best known for building and selling two deep tech companies. Naveen is kind of definitionally outlier founder. When I came there, we had about a $20 million business,

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and it was, you know, $700 or $800 million when I left. I don't think you really understand something until you can build it. Just because something is tried does not mean it's wrong. I'm the opposite of an AI humor.

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I think AI is the next evolution of humanity. We need innovation on the hardware substrate to actually build true intelligence. Please welcome Naveen Rao.

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