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Albert Gu

1 entry · 1 December 2023

Albert Gu is a co-founder and chief scientist of Cartesia, a US startup building real-time generative voice on state-space model architectures, and an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He is a co-author, with Tri Dao, of the Mamba architecture, and was named to TIME's 100 most influential people in AI in 2024.

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  1. Mamba paper proposes selective state-space models as a transformer alternative

    Letting the model's internal state-update rules depend on the input let a 3-billion-parameter Mamba match transformers twice its size while running five times faster.

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