{"id":640968,"date":"2024-10-08T23:59:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T20:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fei-fei-li-picks-google-cloud-where-she-led-ai-as-world-labs-main-compute-provider\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T23:59:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T20:59:45","slug":"fei-fei-li-picks-google-cloud-where-she-led-ai-as-world-labs-main-compute-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fei-fei-li-picks-google-cloud-where-she-led-ai-as-world-labs-main-compute-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"#Fei-Fei Li picks Google Cloud, where she led AI, as World Labs’ main compute provider"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cloud providers are chasing after AI unicorns, and the latest is Fei-Fei Li\u2019s World Labs. The startup just tapp<\/a>ed Google Cloud as its primary compute provider to train AI models, a deal that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But Li\u2019s tenure as chief scientist of AI at Google Cloud wasn\u2019t a factor, the company says.<\/p>\n

During the Google Cloud Startup Summit on Tuesday, the companies announced<\/a> World Labs will use a large chunk of its funding to license GPU servers on the Google Cloud Platform, and ultimately train \u201cspatially intelligent\u201d AI models.<\/p>\n

A handful of well-funded startups building AI foundation models are highly sought after in the cloud services world. Some of the largest deals include OpenAI, which exclusively trains and runs AI models on Microsoft Azure, and Anthropic, which uses AWS and Google Cloud. These companies regularly pay millions of dollars for computing services, and could one day need even more as their AI models scale. That makes them valuable customers for Google, Microsoft, and AWS to build relationships with early on.<\/p>\n

World Labs is certainly building unique, multimodal AI models with significant compute needs. The startup just raised $230 million at more than a billion-dollar valuation, a deal led by A16Z, in order to build AI world models. General<\/a> manager of startups and AI at Google Cloud, James Lee, tells TechCrunch that World Labs\u2019 AI models will one day be able to process, generate, and interact with video and geospatial data. World Labs calls these AI models \u201cspatial intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Li has deep ties with Google Cloud, having led the company\u2019s AI efforts in 2018. However, Google denies that this deal is a product of that relationship, and rejects the idea that cloud services are just commodities. Instead, Lee said services, such as its High Performance Toolkit to scale AI workloads, and its deep supply of AI chips were a larger factor.<\/p>\n

\u201cFei-Fei is obviously a friend of GCP,\u201d said Lee in an interview. \u201cGCP wasn\u2019t the only option they looked at. But for all the reasons we talked about \u2013 our AI optimized infrastructure and the ability to meet their scalability needs \u2013 ultimately they came to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Google Cloud offers AI startups a choice between its proprietary AI chips, tensor processing units or TPUs, and Nvidia\u2019s GPUs, which Google purchases and has a more limited supply of. Google Cloud is trying to get more startups to train AI models on TPUs, largely as a means to reduce its dependency on Nvidia. All cloud providers are limited today by the scarcity of Nvidia GPUs, so many are building their own AI chips to meet demand. Google Cloud says some startups are training and inferencing solely on TPUs, however, GPUs still remain the industry\u2019s favorite AI training chip.<\/p>\n

World Labs chose to train its AI models on GPUs in this deal. However, Google Cloud wouldn\u2019t say what went into that decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe worked with Fei-Fei and her product team, and at this stage of their product roadmap, it made more sense for them to work with us on the GPU platform,\u201d said Lee in an interview. \u201cBut it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean it\u2019s a permanent decision\u2026 Sometimes [startups] move onto different platforms, such as TPUs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee would not disclose how large World Labs\u2019 GPU cluster is, but cloud providers often dedicate massive supercomputers for startups training AI models. Google Cloud promised another startup training AI foundation models, Magic, a cluster with \u201ctens of thousands of Blackwell GPUs,\u201d each of which has more power than a high-end gaming PC.<\/p>\n

These clusters are easier to promise than they are to fulfill. Google\u2019s cloud services competitor Microsoft is reportedly struggling to meet the insane compute demands<\/a> of OpenAI, forcing the startup to tap other options for computing power.<\/p>\n

World Labs\u2019 deal with Google Cloud is not exclusive, meaning the startup may still strike deals with other cloud providers. However, Google Cloud says it will get a majority of its business moving forward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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