Intelligence Inside

We are now free to share some of our perspectives on the company and its mission to accelerate the future with custom chips for deep learning. I'll share a recap of the Nervana story, from an investor's perspective, and try to explain why machine learning is of fundamental importance to every business over time. In short, I think the application of iterative algorithms (e.g., machine learning, directed evolution, generative design) to build complex systems is the most powerful advance in engineering since the Scientific Method. Machine learning allows us to build software solutions that exceed human understanding, and shows us how AI can innervate every industry. By crude analogy, Nervana is recapitulating the evolutionary history of the human brain within computing -- moving from the logical constructs of the reptilian brain to the cortical constructs of the human brain, with massive arrays of distributed memory and iterative learning algorithms. Not surprisingly, the founders integrated experiences in neuroscience, distributed computing, and networking -- a delightful mélange for tackling cognitive computing.