Ep. 1 - Awni Hannun on ASR, MLX and the future of on-device AI

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Atila Orhon, founder of Argmax, locally hosts Awni Hannun, co-creator of MLX:(00:00) AlexNet moment for Speech(03:50) Baidu Mafia(07:34) Grading Awni's 2021 predictions for 2030(22:08) Personalizing ASR for mainstream adoption(32:45) MLX(35:35) From research tool to inference engine(40:05) On-device AI for enthusiast users vs developer default(45:27) Open-source philosophy(51:05) Why did MLX expand to CUDA?(55:45) After MLX(56:36) Intelligence per watt(01:01:13) Advice for researchers on negative results

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