Speed Is the Only Moat 🏎️ — with Anush Elangovan

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Today's guest is Anush Elangovan, VP of AI Software at AMD.

With Anush, we talked about how he thinks about open source as a key strategic driver in the AI era, and how his team is able to stay super fast while ensuring quality by combining their internal work with their external contributions.

And then we got into a rabbit hole about how to get big companies ready for AI, how to think about human capital, and how Anush personally spends his time. And spoiler alert, he is back to doing IC work for up to 40% of his time.

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🥇 Interview Summary

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It’s the 5-minute, handcrafted takeaways of what we talked about, with timestamps to the relevant video moments, for those who don’t have time to sit through the 1-hour chat.

Here is the agenda for today:

1. 🔓 AMD’s open-source AI stack

2. 🤖 Navigating AI-generated code contributions

3. ⚡ Speed as the only moat

4. 🏗️ Getting legacy systems AI-ready

5. 🧠 Why leaders should get their hands dirty

⠀Let’s dive in 👇

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