← Back to context Comment by thatguysaguy 1 year ago I have worked on a team which trains foundation models 4 comments thatguysaguy Reply JSDevOps 1 year ago And no one’s used anything other than Python? The core of Tensorflow uses C++ dekhn 1 year ago Many parts of tensorflow required Python- at least when I worked there a few years ago, it was nearly impossible to compile XLA into a saved model and execute it from pure C++ code. thatguysaguy 1 year ago The claim was that Python is only used for prototyping at Google, not that people are writing the AI frameworks themselves in pure Python.JAX is obviously implemented in C++, but the scientists running the training runs which cost millions of dollars are writing lots of python. mihai_maruseac 1 year ago Rather than repeat myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182940
JSDevOps 1 year ago And no one’s used anything other than Python? The core of Tensorflow uses C++ dekhn 1 year ago Many parts of tensorflow required Python- at least when I worked there a few years ago, it was nearly impossible to compile XLA into a saved model and execute it from pure C++ code. thatguysaguy 1 year ago The claim was that Python is only used for prototyping at Google, not that people are writing the AI frameworks themselves in pure Python.JAX is obviously implemented in C++, but the scientists running the training runs which cost millions of dollars are writing lots of python. mihai_maruseac 1 year ago Rather than repeat myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182940
dekhn 1 year ago Many parts of tensorflow required Python- at least when I worked there a few years ago, it was nearly impossible to compile XLA into a saved model and execute it from pure C++ code.
thatguysaguy 1 year ago The claim was that Python is only used for prototyping at Google, not that people are writing the AI frameworks themselves in pure Python.JAX is obviously implemented in C++, but the scientists running the training runs which cost millions of dollars are writing lots of python.
And no one’s used anything other than Python? The core of Tensorflow uses C++
Many parts of tensorflow required Python- at least when I worked there a few years ago, it was nearly impossible to compile XLA into a saved model and execute it from pure C++ code.
The claim was that Python is only used for prototyping at Google, not that people are writing the AI frameworks themselves in pure Python.
JAX is obviously implemented in C++, but the scientists running the training runs which cost millions of dollars are writing lots of python.
Rather than repeat myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40182940