Nikodem Bieniek

Co-founder of @ExpanseCompute (P26)

[Nikodem Bieniek @nkdem_b]

$5.3M seed for @ExpanseCompute , led by @crane_vc with PXN Ventures. Expanse predicts exactly what an AI workload needs before it runs, so teams get as much as twice the work from the same hardware. Full story: https://t.co/xXDBxSt5Fo

[Ismaeel Bashir @ismaeel_bashir_]

Most cluster monitoring tools can’t tell you, within your allocations, whats being used properly. It tells you a node is allocated. It doesn’t tell you what’s happening inside the allocation. So a job that asked for 400GB and used 60GB reports as busy and you see ‘high utilisation’, but in reality there is 340GB sitting there doing nothing.

Across a cluster this reduces the number of jobs able to flow through your cluster. People then complain they dont have enough capacity, so you buy more, it takes 6-12 months and you still have the same problem.

We’ve measured this problem across various production clusters. Checking every job, what it asked for against what it went on to use. A lot of them reserved 2-3x what they used.

On one cluster the gap came to $8M of capacity nobody could see in a single month.

I’m talking about this and more at @stacresearch in New York in October, drop me a message if you’ll be attending :) - we will also be at the London event as well.

[Nikodem Bieniek @nkdem_b]

@greybaker 🐐

[Dasha @dasha_shunina]

Meet the most promising companies from the latest @ycombinator batch 👀

One big takeaway:

AI agents need more than intelligence.
They need memory, identity, observability, compliance, insurance and power.

My latest @Forbes deep dive 👇

https://t.co/1IPkx2hqSi

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Expanse (@ExpanseCompute) unlocks wasted GPU capacity. Submit jobs with the right resources. Optimize them to run faster. Debug failures in seconds. Cloud + on-prem HPC.

Congrats on the launch, @ismaeel_bashir_, @nkdem_b, @yafet_melake, and @erenzmendi03!

https://t.co/3lFcfFk7gS