🚀 Read this must-read post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 Category: AI,Startups,Felicis Ventures,GPU compiler,inference,inference optimization,Luminal 💡 Main takeaway: Three years ago, Luminal co-founder Joe Viotti was working on chip design at Intel when he came up with an idea. While he worked to make the best chips possible, the most important bottleneck was software. “You can make the best hardware on Earth, but if it's hard for developers to use, they won't use it,” he told me.

Inference optimization startup Luminal has announced $5.3 million in a seed funding round led by Felicis Ventures, with angel investment from Paul Graham, Guillermo Rauch and Ben Porterfield.

Three years ago, Luminal co-founder Joe Fioti was working on chip design at Intel when he came to a

3年前、Luminalの共同創設者であるJoe Fiotiは、Intelでチップ設計に取り組んでいた際、ソフトウェアが重要なボトルネックであることに気づきました。Fiotiは、「どんなに優れたハードウェアを作っても、開発者が使いにくければ使われない」と述べています。 その後、Fiotiはこの問題に特化した会社Luminalを設立。最近、同社は530万ドルのシード資金を調達しました。Luminalは、CoreweaveやLambda Labsのような企業と同じくコンピュートを提供しますが、GPUに依存するのではなく、コードとGPU間を最適化するコンパイラに焦点を当てています。 業界の主要なコンパイラはNvidiaのCUDAですが、Luminalはオープンソースの要素を活用し、最適化を進めています。この分野は、モデルの推論を高速化・低コスト化する方法を模索するスタートアップが増えている領域です。 しかし、主要な研究所の最適化チームとの競争が厳しい中で、Fiotiは市場の成長が十分早いため、競争に対して自信を持っています。

För tre år sedan arbetade Luminals medgrundare Joe Fioti med chipdesign på Intel. Han arbetade för att skapa bästa möjliga chip, men den viktigaste flaskhalsen låg i mjukvaran. ”Du kan göra den bästa hårdvaran på planeten, men om det är svårt för utvecklare att använda, kommer de inte att använda det,” sa han till mig. Nu har han grundat ett företag helt fokuserat på det problemet.

Inference optimization startup Luminal has announced $5.3 million in a seed funding round led by Felicis Ventures, with angel investment from Paul Graham, Guillermo Rauch and Ben Porterfield. 

Three years ago, Luminal co-founder Joe Fioti was working on chip design at Intel when he came to a realization. While he was working on making the best chips he could, the more important bottleneck was in software. “You can make the best hardware on earth, but if it’s hard for developers to use, they’re just not going to use it,” he told me.

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Inference optimization startup Luminal has announced $5.3 million in a seed funding round led by Felicis Ventures, with angel investment from Paul Graham, Guillermo Rauch and Ben Porterfield. 

Inference optimization startup Luminal has announced $5.3 million in a seed funding round led by Felicis Ventures, with angel investment from Paul Graham, Guillermo Rauch and Ben Porterfield. 

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