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		brcmthrowaway on Dec 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LLM in a Flash: Efficient LLM Inference with Limit... Did Apple buy an Iranian company?

hobofan on Dec 20, 2023 | [–]

It looks like most of the team comes from XNOR.ai which Apple acquired in 2020[0]. The company was based in Seattle and it looks like the founders have Iranian roots.

[0]: https://www.geekwire.com/2020/exclusive-apple-acquires-xnor-...

hadjian on Dec 20, 2023 | [–]

I thought the same thing. Most of them from Sharif, which is Iran’s equivalent of Stanford.

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