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EPISODE · Oct 19, 2023 · 23 MIN

The sold-out chips at the heart of AI

from What's Your Problem? · host iHeartPodcasts and Pushkin Industries

Brannin McBee is the co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer at CoreWeave. A few years ago, he and a few friends started buying hardware to mine cryptocurrency. It turns out, the same hardware -- chips known as GPUs -- is essential for running state-of-the-art AI models. Today, Brannin and his friends have turned their hobby into a company that’s competing against some of the biggest companies in the world to provide the hardware and computing power to run AI.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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