Vinson·Li
Index

On infrastructure

  1. AI's bottleneck is a power plant

    Microsoft signed a 20-year deal to restart a reactor at Three Mile Island to power its data centers. The constraint on AI is moving from chips to electricity, and baseload nuclear is suddenly back.

    2 min
  2. The embedding table is the model

    Facebook open-sourced DLRM, its deep learning recommendation model. It shows what big recommenders actually look like: mostly memory, with a small network on top.

    2 min
  3. Google built its own chip for neural nets

    The Tensor Processing Unit has been running in Google's data centers for a year. When a company designs custom silicon for a workload, the workload is here to stay.

    2 min