@Scale Conferences
@Scale Conferences
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The @Scale Podcast is a series of technical conversations for engineers who are building for billions. This podcast examines the latest news and trends, and takes deep dives into some of the most important issues facing engineers working at scale in today’s AI-dominated, ever-changing tech landscape. The podcast is part of the @Scale conference series, which happens throughout the year. It is hosted by Francois Richard and features regular guest experts to explore infrastructure in its many forms.
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The podcast delves into topics like infrastructure design, AI innovation, and high-performance computing, with episodes covering real-world insights from industry leaders about hyper-scale systems at notable companies like Meta and NVIDIA, emphasizing challenges and advancements in the AI and tech landscape.
The @Scale Podcast is a series of technical conversations for engineers who are building for billions. This podcast examines the latest news and trends, and takes deep dives into some of the most important issues facing engineers working at scale in today’s AI-dominated, ever-changing tech landscape. The podcast is part of the @Scale conference series, which happens throughout the year. It is hosted by Francois Richard and features regular guest experts to explore infrastructure in its many forms.
Joe Spisak, Product Director for Artificial Intelligence at Meta, sits down with Ion Stoica to discuss a wide range of topics related to the AI and machine learning industry, including the resurgence of reinforcement learning, large language models, the power of open source software, and the evolution of the AI tech stack.
Ion Stoica is a Professor in the EECS Department at the University of California at Berkeley, and the Director of SkyLab (https://sky.cs.berkeley.edu/). He is currently doing research on cloud computing and AI systems. Past work includes Ray, Apache Spark, Apache Mesos, Tachyon, Chord DHT, and Dynamic Packet State (DPS). He is an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy, an ACM Fellow and has received numerous awards, including the Mark Weiser Award (2019), SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award (2015), and several ”Test of Time” awards. He also co-founded three companies, Anyscale (2019), Databricks (2013) and Conviva (2006).Joe Spisak is Product Director and Head of Open Source in Meta’s Generative AI organization. A veteran of the AI space with over 10 years experience, Joe led product teams at Meta/Facebook, Google and Amazon where he focused on open source AI, open science and building developer tools such as PyTorch to help the community scale up AI in an open and collaborative way. As the leader of product for PyTorch, he and the team built an amazing platform and community that made PyTorch the leading open source AI development framework in the industry and took it to the Linux Foundation where it now resides in partnership with Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD, Google, Amazon and more. Joe is also an angel and advisor to companies like Anthropic, Answer.ai, Lastmile.ai, Evolutionary Scale, Udacity, Lightning.AI, and others.
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