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Nicole Zhu
Jan AI (Homebrew Computer Company)
|0xsageThe Anatomy of a Thinking Machine
Speaking on 10:30 at Lifelong Learning InstituteHow do AIs and GPUs actually work? We'll follow the lifecycle of an `/chat/completion` request, to see how AI models work at the hardware level, down to the final bitwise operations at the register level. We'll use a physical, multi-GPU workstation to visualize this journey and provide a transparent understanding of what happens behind the scenes. This talk is designed to demystify the AI black box, empowering application developers to better appreciate the technology and its capabilities.
Bio
Nicole Zhu is the founder at Homebrew, an AI research lab. Homebrew's mission is to build human-augmenting AIs that are trained sustainable and run energy-efficiently. Previously, Nicole has worked at Google, GoJek, IDEO and studied Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford.