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Wow, congratulations on the launch! I agree whole-heartedly that custom accelerators will fuel the next era of AI/ML advances. I'm the founder of PrintNanny ht

Wow, congratulations on the launch! I agree whole-heartedly that custom accelerators will fuel the next era of AI/ML advances. I'm the founder of PrintNanny https://printnanny.ai/ https://printnanny.ai/, which seems to fit the current use case for Tensil. My model's architecture is a "classic" CNN feature extractor, SSD box/region proposals, with a final non-max suppression op. I currently run a uint8 quantized TensorFlow Lite model on Raspberry Pi, without additional acceleration - but I'm very familiar with the hassle of using partially-closed source accelerators like Coral's Edge TPU. Excited to read through the graph compiler! I joined your Discord, looking forward to tracking Tensil's progress. I confess that I'm curious how you currently or intend to make money? How much time are you giving yourselves to figure out a sustainable financial model? For what it's worth, I'm also ex-Red Hat and thoroughly understand the advantages of paying for high-quality support. I also want to re-iterate that I think that the accessibility of open-source ASIC/FPGA tools will define the future of AI/ML. This is important work that will change the world - I'm excited to see someone tackling it!

tdba 5y ago
Awesome, I think your use case would make a lot of for Tensil. Looking forward to chatting more! The core technology will always be free and open source, so to commercialize Tensil we're planning to offer a "pro" version which would operate under a paid license and provide features specifically needed by enterprise users. We're also working on a web service that will let you run Tensil's tools in a hosted fashion, with one major feature being the ability to search across a large number of potential architectures to find the best FPGA for your needs. Extra paid support and other services will also be in the mix.

tdba 5y ago

Awesome, I think your use case would make a lot of for Tensil. Looking forward to chatting more! The core technology will always be free and open source, so to commercialize Tensil we're planning to offer a "pro" version which would operate under a paid license and provide features specifically needed by enterprise users. We're also working on a web service that will let you run Tensil's tools in a hosted fashion, with one major feature being the ability to search across a large number of potential architectures to find the best FPGA for your needs. Extra paid support and other services will also be in the mix.