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Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee (CoreWeave) on Building an Industrial Scale GPU Cloud (EP.366)

Podcast |: On The Brink with Castle Island
Publisher |: Castle Island Ventures
Media Type |: audio
Podknife tags |: Bitcoin,; Business,; Cryptocurrency,; Interview,; Technology
Categories Via RSS |: Business,; Investing,; Technology
Publication Date |: Oct 31, 2022
Episode Duration |: 01:01:22

CoreWeave's Brian Venturo (CTO) and Brannin McBee (CSO) return to On The Brink for a discussion of their journey through the merge and beyond. In this episode:

Are they relieved that the merge finally happened?
Will there be some form of non-Bitcoin PoW in the future?
Could Ethereum conceivably return to PoW?
The effect of PoS on ETH’s censor resistance
What quantity of ETH miners shifted to other PoW chains and what portion went elsewhere?
What is the best use of capital for former ETH miners now?
Did the merge really reduce global electricity consumption by 0.2%?
Brannin’s estimate for precise electricity reduction from the merge
How feasible is it for former ETH miners to get into GPU clouds?
How Core Weave built their cloud product
What it takes to be competitive in the high performance computing sector
Why the generalized providers of cloud can’t just win when it comes to rendering and ML/AI
Why the HPC market is exploding right now
How open source communities behind text and image models contributed to the explosion in use cases
The importance of Stable Diffusion versus Open AI
The explosive growth of Stable Diffusion and Stability AI
How the growth in infrastructure contributed to the emergence of these newer image models
New directions in AI models like video creation
Will generative AI be attacked by environmentalists?
Can cloud data centers handle interruptible loads like Bitcoin miners can?
How industrial compute will play a role in emerging metaverses
Use cases Brannin and Brian are excited about
Why hardware is actually a constraint to the number of metaverse users today

Learn more about CoreWeave here.

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