We sat down with Deci’s Yonatan Geifman to discuss applying AI to build better AI - at the edge and in the cloud and boosting inference performance by 3x-10x. We also talked about NAS, dealing with uncertainty in AI, how 22-23 environment is better for AI startups than 21, recruiting design customers, and more.

The audio version is available everywhere you listen to podcasts.

https://anchor.fm/forward-by-dawn/

Yonatan is the CEO and founder of Deci.  Deci enables deep learning to live up to its true potential by using AI to build better AI. With the company’s end-to-end deep learning acceleration platform, AI developers can build, optimize, and deploy highly accurate and efficient models for any environment, including cloud, edge, or mobile.

With Deci’s platform, developers can increase deep learning model inference performance by 3x-10x, on any hardware, while still preserving accuracy. This translates directly into enabling new use cases on edge devices, substantially shorter development cycles, and reduced compute costs by up to 80%.

The platform is powered by Deci’s Automated Neural Architecture Construction (AutoNAC) technology, a neural architecture search engine that empowers AI teams to build hardware-aware models that deliver optimal accuracy without sacrificing speed, based on the specific use cases and device.

Deci achieved a record-breaking 11.8x accelerated inference speedup on Intel CPUs at MLPerf Industry Benchmark and has been named to the CBInsights top 100 AI companies.

Deci is backed by Jibe Ventures and Insight Partners among others.

0:00 - Applying AI to build better AI

5:15 - Evolution of NAS

12:10 - Developing a way to assess model performance without actually running them

13:40 - Expanding from NAS to a bigger platform

16:30 - Customer and use cases

22:35 - Optimizing video generative model efficiency 3x

26:10 - Pushing the models to the edge

32:40 - Biggest challenges Deci had to overcome to build the product

37:00 - How to figure out the direction for your startup

39:40 - Recruiting design customers

43:36 - Dealing with uncertainty in AI

53:13 - How the way we build AI systems will evolve

1:01:10 - SuperGradients

Links:

Web: https://deci.ai

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/learnaitogether

Twitter: https://www.linkedin.com/company/deciai/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/deciai/

SuperGradients: https://github.com/Deci-AI/super-gradients

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