Things Get Interesting with Voltron Data’s Acquisition of Claypot AI
Voltron Data was recently featured on the TechArena discussing composable data system delivery with their Theseus solution. I was ridiculously intrigued by both Josh Patterson’s team’s approach to solving a really challenging aspect of data analysis with acceleration of data preprocessing at scale and the organization’s background in deep knowledge of GPU architectures and accelerated system design. This background has enabled Theseus to deliver an accelerator agnostic framework that not only taps the power of GPUs but enables a host of logic accelerators to work in tandem with high bandwidth memory and fabric technologies to deliver the performance needed as efficiently as possible.
Enter Claypot AI, the company founded by Chip Huyen and Zhenzhong Xu. Claypot is a real time AI solution that will help infuse Theseus with MLOps capability and extend Voltron Data’s offerings to other industry platforms like Apache Arrow, Ibis and Substrait. The technical chops of the Claypot team is impressive. In fact, Chip wrote “Designing Machine Learning Systems” and is a professor on the subject at Stanford. She also has a history at NVIDIA so will bring this background to Theseus development and Voltron Data more broadly.
I can’t wait to hear more from this new collective team as they tackle one of the most daunting challenges of broad AI adoption which is efficient performance delivery of the entire workflow. Watch this space for more!
Voltron Data was recently featured on the TechArena discussing composable data system delivery with their Theseus solution. I was ridiculously intrigued by both Josh Patterson’s team’s approach to solving a really challenging aspect of data analysis with acceleration of data preprocessing at scale and the organization’s background in deep knowledge of GPU architectures and accelerated system design. This background has enabled Theseus to deliver an accelerator agnostic framework that not only taps the power of GPUs but enables a host of logic accelerators to work in tandem with high bandwidth memory and fabric technologies to deliver the performance needed as efficiently as possible.
Enter Claypot AI, the company founded by Chip Huyen and Zhenzhong Xu. Claypot is a real time AI solution that will help infuse Theseus with MLOps capability and extend Voltron Data’s offerings to other industry platforms like Apache Arrow, Ibis and Substrait. The technical chops of the Claypot team is impressive. In fact, Chip wrote “Designing Machine Learning Systems” and is a professor on the subject at Stanford. She also has a history at NVIDIA so will bring this background to Theseus development and Voltron Data more broadly.
I can’t wait to hear more from this new collective team as they tackle one of the most daunting challenges of broad AI adoption which is efficient performance delivery of the entire workflow. Watch this space for more!
