Intelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models
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This episode features Ramin Hassani, CEO of Liquid AI, discussing the company's journey from biologically inspired neural networks at MIT to developing device-native foundation models. He makes a technically grounded case for efficient, hardware-aware architectures, emphasizing that scale alone doesn't define AI's future, especially for edge devices with limited resources. The conversation highlights Liquid AI's automated architecture search process, which optimizes models for specific hardware and downstream tasks, leading to hybrid architectures that combine attention with simplified, gated convolutions for superior efficiency.