[jwuphysics]

Hi Jeremy & Eric, great to see your newest endeavor. I hope that Answer.AI builds on the success and impact that fast.ai has already enjoyed.

Given new developments in hardware (by companies not named NVIDIA), I'm wondering if you are keen on exploring the next generation of model architectures and optimization procedures that might exploit newer hardware. In other words, will research directions pivot based on the hardware lottery?[1] Are you in conversations with companies developing these alternative chips?

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06489

[jph00]

Yes I think it's a big opportunity too, although I'm mainly looking at leveraging the work Modular will be doing to harness diverse hardware, rather than handle that ourselves.