Anton McGonnell

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@aton2006

Product @SambaNovaAI #GenerativeAI

Palo Alto Joined August 2009

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Anton McGonnell @aton2006 Oct 27

Congrats to a phenomenal team. @FPuklowski @GoodisonJason

General Compute Verified account @general_compute Oct 27

🚨 Big news today: We’ve raised $100M for our Series A! 🎉 🚀

We believe demand for fast inference is many times larger than demand for slow inference, and it’s about to go exponential.

Thanks to our co-leads @BlackbirdVC and @Abstractvc. Two visionary partners join our journey 🎉 🚀

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Anton McGonnell @aton2006 Aug 27

A few years from now, people will look back at this under-the-radar talk and realize how profoundly correct it was.

SambaNova Verified account @SambaNovaAI Aug 26

A look under the hood of SN50.

@raghup17 took the stage at @hotchipsorg for a deep dive into the architecture behind our latest RDU and what it takes to scale dataflow for production inference.

Thanks to @RyanSmithAT for the great technical breakdown.

Read it here 👇
bit.ly/4gT6C0O

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Anton McGonnell @aton2006 Jul 31

This is an important milestone for SambaNova. Not only is it the first verified pareto curve SemiAnalysis has shared (albeit unofficial) of any AI chip startup, but it is our first demonstration of SN50 system performance, as well as a real working demonstration of heterogeneous inference with Nvidia GPUs.

But there is a lot of work for us to do. We will scale up our mappings with expert and tensor parallelism to increase speed and per chip throughput, and continue to push the pareto frontier.

SemiAnalysis Verified account @SemiAnalysis_ Jul 30

Great work to Sambanova team on bringing up SN50 MVP demo of MiniMax M2.7 model Excited for when the software stack will work above batch size 2 & will work on more frontier models!! The sambanova software team is def grinding!
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Anton McGonnell @aton2006 Jun 28

This is a big problem for our industry.

SemiAnalysis Verified account @SemiAnalysis_ Jun 27

SHOCKING: Many neocloud executives we spoke with feel that if they have non-NVIDIA networking gear on their cluster, or if their cloud has an AMD GPU or TPU offering, NVIDIA will retaliate. They feel that retaliation includes not giving early allocation or no longer supporting a potential IPO/VC raise.(1/3)🧵

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Anton McGonnell @aton2006 May 15

Never has it been clearer that SambaNova has the best architecture in the world for AI inference. This will be proven to be true over the next 6 months.