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Why You Can't Just Rent 1,000 GPUs | Charles Frye (Modal)
Published Sep 1, 2026 · 1h 3m
Charles Frye of Modal examines the infrastructure constraints behind large-scale AI research. With Ravid Shwartz Ziv and Allen Roush, he discusses underused hardware, saturated resources, sharing GPU capacity and deciding when to train a model. The conversation also covers inference and speculative decoding, hardware economics, virtualization and the security boundaries around agents and open models. Hosted by Ravid Shwartz Ziv and Allen Roush. Watch the full conversation on the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Hosted by Ravid Shwartz Ziv, Allen Roush
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The Information Bottleneck
Roger Deane, Walter Silima and Sally McFarlane discuss the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy at its tenth anniversary. Topics include South Africa’s MeerKAT and SKA research capacity, the Ilifu cloud, CARTA, immersive data visualization and training. The episode offers a practical view of the people and infrastructure supporting African radio astronomy.
The Cosmic Savannah
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