Why You Can't Just Rent 1,000 GPUs | Charles Frye (Modal)
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.
How to Turn Research Into Billion-Dollar Companies, with Ion Stoica
Berkeley professor Ion Stoica discusses how research software becomes useful infrastructure and, sometimes, a company. The conversation draws on systems projects and companies associated with his laboratory to examine adoption, maintenance and the role of students. It also covers the complexity of the AI software stack, GPU utilization, coding agents in distributed systems, reward design and regulating outcomes. Hosted by Ravid Shwartz Ziv and Allen Roush. Watch the full conversation on the publisher’s YouTube channel.