Laura Florescu

Efficient AI software & Hardware. Previously @mosaicml, @sambanovasystems, @groq. PhD @nyu, research @microsoft

[Laura Florescu @florescl]

very big. many transistor.

[James Bradbury @jekbradbury]

opus 4.5 is really good at GPU programming, but somehow it’s even better at GPU programming jokes (h/t @Si_Boehm)

[tom ッ @tom_antok]

Who remembers the days we used to code like this?

[sunny madra @sundeep]

Go time 🇺🇸

[sunny madra @sundeep]

When you tell engineers they can't do something, they often end up focusing on finding a way to do it (large models on Groq)

Very proud of all our teams, @GroqInc.

[Laura Florescu @florescl]

Grateful to have been using @yutori_ai for a few cases, great product!

[Devi Parikh @deviparikh]

Frequently heard phrases for @yutori_ai Scouts
— "One of the few actually useful AI products." (often followed by "besides coding agents", and they presumably also mean "besides chatbots").
— "I feel like I am just scratching the surface."
— "The first product to crack an actual use case for computer use agents."

[Laura Florescu @florescl]

@_arohan_ Is it from some Sinclair insight in DC? got it too

[Deedy @deedydas]

The new President of Romania has 2 perfect score Gold medals on the International Math Olympiad (IMO), a feat only 25 people have ever achieved in history!

First the pope, and now this. First they learn about higher dimensional spaces and then they excel in all of them.

[Laura Florescu @florescl]

Very useful for some chip architectures

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

New paper: turns out you can train deep nets without normalization layers by replacing them with a parameterized tanh()

[hattie @oh_that_hat]

The way we interact online is what AI will eventually learn. We are its parental examples. So...treat people the way you want AI to treat you?

[sunny madra @sundeep]

Birth of a @GroqInc card here in Santa Clara, California 🇺🇸

[Laura Florescu @florescl]

@AmandaAskell awwww that’s really cute

[Laura Florescu @florescl]

@fchollet banger

[Groq Inc @GroqInc]

🎯

[Laura Florescu @florescl]

@doomie 😂😂😂

[Laura Florescu @florescl]

@huckbennett @NoahSD Congrats!

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Thank you @gavinnewsom for vetoing SB1047 -- for siding with California Dynamism, economic growth, and freedom to compute, over safetyism, doomerism, and decline. 💪🚀✨

[Laura Florescu @florescl]

@savvyRL @mrcslws Congratulations!!!

[Nat Friedman @natfriedman]

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.

Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000 years, we can finally read the scrolls:
This image was produced by @Youssef_M_Nader, @LukeFarritor, and @JuliSchillij, who have now won the Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize of $700,000. Congratulations!!

These fifteen columns come from the very end of the first scroll we have been able to read and contain new text from the ancient world that has never been seen before. The author – probably Epicurean philosopher Philodemus – writes here about music, food, and how to enjoy life's pleasures. In the closing section, he throws shade at unnamed ideological adversaries – perhaps the stoics? – who "have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular."

This year, the Vesuvius Challenge continues. The text that we revealed so far represents just 5% of one scroll.

In 2024, our goal is to from reading a few passages of text to entire scrolls, and we're announcing a new $100,000 grand prize for the first team that is able to read at least 90% of all four scrolls that we have scanned.

The scrolls stored in Naples that remain to be read represent more than 16 megabytes of ancient text. But the villa where the scrolls were found was only partially excavated, and scholars tell us that there may be thousands more scrolls underground. Our hope is that the success of the Vesuvius Challenge catalyzes the excavation of the villa, that the main library is discovered, and that whatever we find there rewrites history and inspires all of us.

It's been a great joy to work on this strange and amazing project. Thanks to Brent Seales for laying the foundation for this work over so many years, thanks to the friends and Twitter users whose donations powered our effort, and thanks to the many contestants whose contributions have made the Vesuvius Challenge successful!

Read more in our announcement: https://t.co/rUlrdGXBMs

[Laura Florescu @florescl]

@tapairportugal just received the worst customer support from a company ever. I will never fly with this airline ever again

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Groq is probably the most consequential AI company you haven’t heard of - but they’ve been working hard for years to build the fastest hardware for AI.

From a commenter on Hacker News:

“This is really impressive. For reference, inference for llama 70b on together’s api generates text at roughly 60 tokens/second.
I can’t find any information about an api, though I’m guessing that the costs are eye watering.
If they offered a Mixtral endpoint that did 300-400 tokens per second at a reasonable cost, I can’t imagine ever using another provider.”

You can try groq’s solution at https://t.co/QUgO3ntxc5 and see for yourself why folks on Hacker News are excited.

https://t.co/J8LS8zxZmX