Opportunity for AI people: How to become rich and famous (not clickbait)
I’ve been thinking of this strategy for a while after I used it once and got pretty good success out of it:
There’s this twitter account that posts pretty interesting papers; most of them have code open sourced on GH: https://twitter.com/ak92501
But most of the time they’re hard to reproduce and use via Google Colab (colab imo is a mess, too much material ui which feels clunky)
A few months ago I built a system called Superscale, which makes it dead simple to: create, deploy, and scale these AI models onto multiple GPUs/multiple nodes. It has processed hundreds of millions of jobs to date. It does it with a pretty complex mashup of: VPNs, load balancers, container orchastraters, job queues, etc. However, all the python code is total trash; and ive gone in a bad habit of not updating to git local changes.... (and have no ci/cd); but it does the job: I was able to create an unrelased project called Cloakview (makes it impossible to detect faces by running an adversarial model against the image to change a few pixels here and there) within a day and scale it in real time (run on multiple gpu workers). And add a basic frontend that talks to very unsecure APIs in the backend.
Anyways, that’s not quite the point: if you can create a fast moving system that allows you to clone and deploy these models made by researchers within hours like I did with Superscale, in such a way that end users can easily interact with it (like i did with https://twitter.com/sdan_io/status/1285687026386444288?s=20) you can easily start generating money by adding a freemium model ontop of these models to go brrr to your audience and stripe account.
I’ve always wanted to do this, and might; but realistically can’t. Given that I just need a little motivation to clean up code and add some simple ci/cd, lmk if you’d want to possibly help; we can figure out some revenue share if it comes to that.