Benjamin F Spector

pilot of @flappyairplanes. i make ml go brr.

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@khoomeik @aidanmantine @saurabh_shah2 @ChengleiSi @tararezaeikh come join the fun!

[Benjamin F Spector @spectorb]

I'd known Dave for years before we decided to start Flappy, and Dave's friendship and massive conviction was a big part of what pushed us to take the leap! We absolutely wouldn't be here without Dave and we're incredibly grateful to have him flying alongside us.

There is no investor more loyal, no ally more steadfast, than @davemuni. We're tremendously lucky to have him.

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@IndexVentures @flappyairplanes Thanks for leading the way! Glad to work so closely with you and @marklxu1

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@willdepue will depue also very cool fwiw

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@gefkovicz @aidanmantine @amspector100 Thanks Adam! Thankful to have you on board!

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@AlfredZSpector thanks dad! :)

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@spartaneus @flappyairplanes @jumptrading @amspector100 @aidanmantine Thank you Saurubh! Jump has been an amazing partner and we're so glad to get to work with you!

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@marklxu1 @amspector100 @aidanmantine @flappyairplanes thank you mark! incredibly grateful <3

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@fogelin I had no idea you did this until this post

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@Oskarlso @amspector100 @aidanmantine thank you oskar! remain grateful to you for leading the F&F round back when we were just getting started!

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@nash_c_brown @flappyairplanes we are very lucky to have you!

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@willcb thanks will! always a pleasure working with you guys

[Benjamin F Spector @spectorb]

Hello again, it's been a while.

We're writing to let you know that we have raised quite a lot more money. We're letting you know because we are on the lookout to hire smart people and this will help us do that.

See you again when we have a product or have raised more money!

[Flapping Airplanes @flappyairplanes]

We’ve spent the past year developing new primitives for GPUs. We believe this enables new algorithms to change how machines learn, open new markets, and dramatically reshape AI’s cost structure.

We have raised a $1 billion Series A, co-led by Index and Lux.

[Kushal Thaman @kushal1t]

Good morning friends. Flappy's quest for extreme learning efficiency has led us to build the 'Kittens Virtual Machine' (KVM) framework, which launches a megakernel that acts as a persistent runtime and exposes its own instruction-based programming model.

The KVM (a) provides unprecedented control and visibility over the hardware (something we've been extensively utilizing to accelerate our internal research), exposing a completely new kind of systems–training co-design space, (b) reaches vastly SoTA speeds without hand-tuned kernels, and (c) tremendously increases GPU utilization by co-packing multiple independent workloads into the same kernel.

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@AmirFischer09 @amspector100 @aidanmantine Thank you Amir! Very grateful to have you aboard!

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@carloagostinel2 @amspector100 @aidanmantine @flappyairplanes Thank you Carlo! Love you

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@kokoxs @amspector100 @aidanmantine Thank you Koko! Love you guys <3

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@januarycomputer @BrendanFoody @BenSpector alas brendan linked the wrong Ben but I am a fan of the other kind of nuggets

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@KaichaoYou do you mean david patterson?

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@AlfredZSpector Lovely essay!