Will Falcon is the CEO and co-founder of Lightning AI, a platform that enables users to quickly build and publish ML models. In this episode, Will explains how Lightning addresses the challenges of a fragmented AI ecosystem and reveals which framework PyTorch Lightning was originally built upon (hint: not PyTorch!) He also shares lessons he took from his experience serving in the military and offers a recommendation to veterans who want to work in tech. Show notes (transcript and links): http://wandb.me/gd-will-falcon 
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 ⏳ Timestamps:  00:00 Intro 01:00 From SEAL training to FAIR 04:17 Stress-testing Lightning 07:55 Choosing PyTorch over TensorFlow and other frameworks 13:16 Components of the Lightning platform 17:01 Launching Lightning from Facebook 19:09 Similarities between leadership and research 22:08 Lessons from the military 26:56 Scaling PyTorch Lightning to Lightning AI 33:21 Hiring the right people 35:21 The future of Lightning 39:53 Reducing algorithm complexity in self-supervised learning 42:19 A fragmented ML landscape 44:35 Outro 
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