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RT @thecompute100: Today’s guests are Barun Kar, CEO, and @rkhemani, Executive Chairman at @upscale_ai_inc.
Barun and Rajiv’s bet is that the AI era needs its own network: open, standards-based and built to connect AI chips to each other.
From switch silicon to supply chains, we discuss:
- How scale-up and scale-out networks work
- Where copper, optics and optical switches fit
- Why open standards matter for AI chips
- What a network operating system does
- How Upscale secures its supply chain
- Building culture while scaling to 300 people
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:05 Why AI needs a new network
5:21 Why cloud-era chips fall short for AI
9:05 Scale-up and scale-out inside an AI rack
16:09 The Auradine spin-out and Upscale’s founding story
20:52 Memory semantics versus packet switching
27:23 From Cavium and Palo Alto Networks to Upscale
32:23 Competition and the system-level advantage
35:55 What a network operating system does
37:01 Optics and optical switching
41:45 Selling to hyperscalers, new clouds and enterprises
47:40 How big AI networking could get
50:43 Securing supply across the chain
54:29 Building at the forefront of AI
57:40 Beyond networking: what comes next
1:03:38 Building culture in a fast-growing company
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