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by Humdeee 3028 days ago
I am not in the AI space at all, but I am under the impression that python is the most used language for it. If workload is becoming an issue, wouldn't the low hanging fruit be a more performance driven software language?

With how fast things are evolving, developing something like an ASIC ($$$) for this might be outdated before it even hits release, no?
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chillee 3028 days ago
The heavy lifting done in neural networks is all offloaded to C++ code and the GPU. Very little of the computation time is spent in python.

ASICs will definitely be very helpful, and there's currently a bit of a rush to develop them. Google's TPUs might be one of the first efforts, but several other companies and startups are looking to have offerings too.

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davidcuddeback 3028 days ago
> Google's TPUs might be one of the first efforts, but several other companies and startups are looking to have offerings too.

NVidia's Volta series includes tensor cores as well [1]. So far, I think they've only released the datacenter version, which is available on EC2 p3 instances [2].

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/volta-gpu-architect...

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p3/#Product_Detail...

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