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Latent Space Podcast Explores Transformer Advancements with Suno and FlashAttention 2

The Latent Space Podcast, also known as The AI Engineer Podcast, has featured discussions on advancements in transformer models. One episode focused on Suno and its work with Mikey Shulman, while another highlighted Tri Dao's contributions to FlashAttention 2, which significantly speeds up transformer performance without approximation. AI

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Latent Space Podcast Explores Transformer Advancements with Suno and FlashAttention 2

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. Latent Space Podcast TIER_1 English(EN) · Latent.Space ·

    Making Transformers Sing - with Mikey Shulman of Suno

    <p>Giving computers a voice has always been at the center of sci-fi movies; “I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that” wouldn’t hit as hard if it just appeared on screen as a terminal output, after all. The first electronic speech synthesizer, the Voder...</p>

  2. Latent Space Podcast TIER_1 English(EN) · Latent.Space ·

    FlashAttention 2: making Transformers 800% faster w/o approximation - with Tri Dao of Together AI

    <p>FlashAttention was first published by Tri Dao in May 2022 and it had a deep impact in the large language models space. Most open models you’ve heard of (RedPajama, MPT, LLaMA, Falcon, etc) all leverage it for faster inference. Tri came on the podcast t...</p>