Qian Sun

Co-founder at Goaly AI

[Qian Sun @qiansun_]

Renting gpus is crazy nowadays and blind auctions are everywhere:

sales: ‘you need to bid at least $3.5/hr for h200’

me: ‘what do other bids look like?’

sales: ‘can’t share, but the highest bid is 3.75 now’

me: ‘ok, i can do 3.8’

sales: ‘i really want you to win, but you have to bid above 4 to win’

me: ...

[Qian Sun @qiansun_]

@RavenUmbra @AnthropicAI that's also my concern, i don't think claude is good enough yet to work without human oversight

[Qian Sun @qiansun_]

an intelligence explosion is inevitable in the next 5 years

[Geoffrey Hinton @geoffreyhinton]

The idea of an intelligence explosion caused by recursive self improvement has been around for a long time but until very recently it did not seem imminent. Now many leading researchers think it may happen quite soon. You can read our paper about it here:
https://t.co/sgUpugjpRY

[Qian Sun @qiansun_]

@Tesla when can my 2022 model y performance use v14lite 🥲

[Qian Sun @qiansun_]

@Tesla FSD has gotten much better over the past year. in the past people bought Teslas because they're electric cars, now more and more people are going to buy them because they can drive themselves

[Tesla @Tesla]

FSD Supervised is your superhuman guardian angel

[Qian Sun @qiansun_]

@rickyhorwitz lol true

[Qian Sun @qiansun_]

ok, actually going to start using this account now

[Qian Sun @qiansun_]

@rickyhorwitz it's she 😂

[Qian Sun @qiansun_]

Cherokee, my Great Pyrenees and Lab mix, is the only member of the team who has never asked me about GPU utilization.

[Qian Sun @qiansun_]

@rickyhorwitz Yes some VCs did say our market was too small

[Qian Sun @qiansun_]

Last long weekend, I finally had some time to read some less-hyped books and papers. I chose “Hints for Computer System Design” by Lampson. Surprisingly, even though the paper was written more than 40 years ago, most of its principles still apply to modern distributed systems. What a masterpiece!

The emphasis on simplicity, speed, and efficiency is exactly what we need when building training and inference systems today.

My favorite quote from the paper: “Perfection is reached not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.”

[Qian Sun @qiansun_]

@thsottiaux Why specifically 34 days?

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb