Ep. 1 - Awni Hannun on ASR, MLX and the future of on-device AI

Atila Orhon, founder of Argmax, locally hosts Awni Hannun, co-creator of MLX:

(00:00) AlexNet moment for Speech

(03:50) Baidu Mafia

(07:34) Grading Awni's 2021 predictions for 2030

(22:08) Personalizing ASR for mainstream adoption

(32:45) MLX

(35:35) From research tool to inference engine

(40:05) On-device AI for enthusiast users vs developer default

(45:27) Open-source philosophy

(51:05) Why did MLX expand to CUDA?

(55:45) After MLX

(56:36) Intelligence per watt

(01:01:13) Advice for researchers on negative results