Think AI

Notes and observations.

  1. Company

    Notes from building hardware in Riyadh

    The question we get most often from outside the region is why we build here. The answer is less sentimental than people expect.

    Ammar Enaya18 August 20262 min read
  2. Company

    Hiring at the seam

    The problems worth solving in this company are almost all in the gap between two job descriptions. That makes hiring strange.

    Ahmed AlSharif29 July 20262 min read
  3. Industry

    Small models are having a moment

    The interesting movement in deployment is not at the frontier. It is at seven billion parameters and below, and it changes what a well used accelerator looks like.

    Ahmed AlSharif24 June 20262 min read
  4. Industry

    Everyone is buying. Almost nobody is measuring.

    In a year of procurement conversations, the question that almost never comes up is what share of the hardware will be doing work six months in.

    Ammar Enaya3 June 20262 min read
  5. Engineering

    The number on the slide and the number you get

    Accelerator launches are quoted in FLOPS. Which FLOPS is in the footnote, and the difference is usually a factor of two.

    Ahmed AlSharif12 May 20262 min read