YOLOv8 Object Detection on Salad’s GPUs (73% Cheaper Than Azure)

What is YOLOv8? In the fast-evolving world of AI, object detection has made remarkable strides, epitomized by YOLOv8. YOLO (You Only Look Once) is an object detection and image segmentation model launched in 2015 and YOLOv8s is the latest version, developed by Ultralytics. The algorithm is not just about recognizing objects; it’s about doing so […]
A New Price-Performance Standard for BERT Transformers.

Engineers from Numenta used Salad Container Engine (SCE) to benchmark a first-of-its-kind intelligent computing platform that optimizes BERT transformer networks. Learn how Numenta attained 10x more inferences per dollar on SCE. Challenge Optimizing AI Systems Deploying practical artificial intelligence applications at scale requires the distribution of large data sets to complex networks of specialized hardware. Though deep neural networks […]
SaladCast Episode 11: Jared Carpenter on Salad’s Go-to-Market Strategy

Welcome to SaladCast! In this podcast series, we introduce you to Salad Chefs from all corners of the Infinite Kitchen. We hope you’ll join us as we get to know members of our community, indie developers, and teammates from our very own Salad staff. In this episode: Bob continues his journey to open source the day-to-day efforts […]
Decentralize, or Be Destroyed!

The opinions and commentary expressed herein are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of everyone at Salad. We accept a diversity of viewpoints, flavors, and spices. In our #MappingtheMetaverse summer series, we explored a world where video games are eternal, people power the Internet, and you can get paid to hatch baby […]
Centralization Is a Systems Design Problem

The opinions and commentary expressed herein are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of everyone at Salad. We accept a diversity of viewpoints, flavors, and spices in our Kitchen. Systems design questions are the scourge of first-year web developers everywhere. These prompts have become a standard part of engineering interviews […]
SaladCast Episode 13: Kyle Dodson on Containerized Workloads

*Welcome to SaladCast! In this podcast series, we introduce you to Salad Chefs from all corners of the Infinite Kitchen. We hope you’ll join us as we get to know members of our community, indie developers, and teammates from our very own Salad staff.* In this episode: Engineering mastermind Kyle Dodson fields some heady questions about the […]
SaladCast Episode 12: Our Product Roadmap With Daniel Sarfati

Welcome to SaladCast! In this podcast series, we introduce you to Salad Chefs from all corners of the Infinite Kitchen. We hope you’ll join us as we get to know members of our community, indie developers, and teammates from our very own Salad staff. In this episode: The SaladCast staff series continues with Bob at the helm! […]
SaladCast Episode 10: The Salad Business Model With CEO Bob Miles

Welcome to SaladCast! In this podcast series, we introduce you to Salad Chefs from all corners of the Infinite Kitchen. We hope you’ll join us as we get to know members of our community, indie developers, and teammates from our very own Salad staff. In today’s episode: Salad CEO Bob Miles joins the SaladCast to discuss our […]
Exploring Distributed Data Parallel (DDP) Training on Consumer GPUs

Our team is currently developing utility applications for Salad Container Engine (SCE)
Salad Raises $17M to Decentralize the Cloud

Left Lane Capital and Origin Ventures co-lead our Series A, alongside existing investors Royal Street Ventures, Carthona Capital, and Kickstart Fund As Salad enters its fourth year, we’re proud to have hundreds of thousands of PC gamers and an incredible lineup of investors joining us in our mission to build a Community Cloud for the next generation of the web. The […]