The Next 31 Years of Developing Unum

When I was 20, I committed the next 40 years of my life to AI, approaching it from the infrastructure perspective. In 2015, before ChatGPT and the AI surge, such a long-term commitment seemed naive to many — almost like proposing marriage on a second date — the move I am most proud of. Yesterday, Unum celebrated its 9th anniversary, and my open-source contributions have surpassed 9,000 stars on GitHub. To mark the occasion, as I’ve done before, I’m releasing something new, free, and practical for the scientific community: efficient Bilinear Forms for real and complex numbers. These are useful in fields like statistics, computational physics, biology, or chemistry. These kernels may offer up to 5x improvements in mixed-precision throughput compared to BLAS and other libraries that power tools like NumPy, especially for simulating the time evolution of small systems of non-entangled quantum states. If you’re curious about Bilinear Forms, you can check the release notes of the SimSIMD project. ...

November 26, 2024 · 3 min · 561 words · Ash Vardanian

Hyperscaler Shopping List: 2022 Data Center Tech Frenzy ☁️

A single software company can spend over 💲10 Billion/year, on data centres, but not every year is the same. When all stars align, we see bursts of new technologies reaching the market simultaneously, thus restarting the purchasing super-cycle. 2022 will be just that, so let’s jump a couple of quarters ahead and see what’s on the shopping list of your favorite hyperscaler! Friendly warning: this article is full of technical terms and jargon, so it may be hard to read if you don’t write code or haven’t assembled computers before. ...

December 7, 2021 · 15 min · 3003 words · Ash Vardanian

Come to Armenia 🇦🇲

Borders are closed, people are sitting at home, but I bet most of you dream about traveling again. I want to invite you all to my country of origin - Armenia. It has something to offer to every group of people - tourists, entrepreneurs and investors! ...

August 1, 2020 · 8 min · 1681 words · Ash Vardanian