Serkan Piantino's Company Makes AI for Everyone NVIDIA Blog

Spell, founded by Serkan Piantino, is making machine learning as easy as ABC. Piantino, CEO of the New York-based startup and former director of engineering for Facebook AI Research, explained to AI Podcast host Noah Kravitz how he's bringing compute power to those that don't have easy access to GPU clusters. Spell provides access to hardware as well as a software interface that accelerates execution. Piantino reported that a wide variety of industries has shown interest in Spell, from healthcare to retail, as well as researchers and academia. "You know there's some upfront cost to running an experiment, but if you get that cost down low enough, it disappears mentally" -- Serkan Piantino [11:52] "Providing access to hardware and making things easier -- giving everybody the same sort of beautiful compute cluster that giant research organizations work on -- was a really powerful idea" -- Serkan Piantino [18:36] Deep learning icon and NVIDIA Chief Scientist Bill Dally reflects on his career in AI and offers insight into the AI revolution made possible by GPU-driven deep learning.