Chris Lattner

So it's been a number of years that I left Apple.

And the reason I left Apple was to do AI.

Okay.

So, and again, I won't comment on Apple and AI, but at the time, right, I wanted to get into and understand and understand the technology, understand the applications, the workloads.

And so I was like, okay, I'm going to go dive deep into applied and AI and then the technology underneath it, right?

I found myself at Google.

And that was like when TPUs were waking up.

Exactly.

And so I found myself at Google.

And Jeff Dean, who's a rock star, as you know, right?

And in 2017, TensorFlow was really taking off and doing incredible things.

And I was attracted to Google to help them with the TPUs, right?

And TPUs are an innovative hardware accelerator platform, have now, I mean, I think, proven massive scale and done incredible things, right?

And so one of the things that this led into is a bunch of different projects, which I'll skip over, right?

One of which was this Swift for TensorFlow project, right?

And so that project was a research project.

And so the idea of that is say, okay, well, let's look at innovative new programming models where we can get

a fast programming language, we can get automatic differentiation into language.

Let's push the boundaries of these things in a research setting.

Now, that project, I think, lasted two, three years.