Closing Night of YC AI Startup School: The GPU-Hour Dinner
A small, invite-only dinner for people who actually touch the machines.
Closing night of the startup school hosting a private dinner for the most cracked; if you love research, applied research, yapping and discussing the cutting edge at the intersection of computing, prediction and finance
this is for you,
if you're an industry quant, kernel or inference engineer work in the cloud, on hardware or sell it
this is for you,
if you've written research applied research or build computing infra
this is for you
Fun fact a gpu-hour isn't fungible and nobody prices it like that: your 1,024 gpu job runs at the p99.9 of the fabric not the mean, allreduce is a barrier so every rank waits on the slowest, one hash collision and the step stalls, IB 1-2µs vs tuned RoCE 5-10µs and the variance matters more than the gap.
Blackwell's worse right now, FA4 is a beta wheel and CuTe DSL is beta til end of summer so nobody's pulling paper flops on day one.
Price a deal on $/chip-hour against advertised pflops and you just handed someone a massive basis
📅 Sunday, July 26 · 6:30–9 PM
📍 San Francisco, Financial District, address shared on approval
🪑 50 seats · approval required