30-year-old AI startup founder tackles GPU shortage with AMD chips
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Sharon Zhou is the 30-year-old founder of AI startup Lamini, which uses AMD chips instead of scarce Nvidia GPUs.
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Zhou has an impressive resume - first to double major in classics and CS at Harvard, PhD from Stanford under Andrew Ng, adjunct Stanford professor.
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Her co-founder Greg Diamos helped realize that with the right software, non-Nvidia GPUs could compete - he previously worked on Nvidia's CUDA software.
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Zhou saw businesses excited for AI models but unable to get enough Nvidia GPUs - so Lamini offers flexible infrastructure to meet demand.
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In January, Zhou shared an image of AMD's latest MI300X chip powering Lamini's models - showing the competition for Nvidia.