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Anima Anandkumar was previously principal scientist at Amazon Web Services and senior director of AI research at NVIDIA.
“Previously, she was principal scientist at Amazon Web Services and senior director of AI research at NVIDIA.”
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Anima Anandkumar said her group built the first high-resolution AI-based weather model in collaboration with Nvidia, Caltech and Berkeley Lab.
“We built the first high-resolution AI-based weather model, but that was in deep collaboration with my team at Nvidia, Caltech, uh, Berkeley Lab.”
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Anima Anandkumar argued that scientific discovery is usually limited by slow, expensive physical experiments rather than by a lack of ideas.
“scientific discovery is most of the time not bottlenecked by the lack of ideas.”
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Anima Anandkumar said the AI weather model is tens of thousands of times faster than physics-based forecasting and can run on a desktop GPU.
“it's tens of thousands of times faster. So what would take a supercomputer can be put in now a desktop GPU.”
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Anima Anandkumar said Nvidia open sourced its AI weather model under a permissive Apache license.
“But we immediately open sourced it, right? So it's faster, it's accurate, you know, and because of that open sourcing in a permissive way with Apache license.”
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Anima Anandkumar said her team created the first genome-scale language model trained on all bacterial and viral genomes.
“We created the first genome scale language model trained on all bacterial and viral genomes”
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