The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) · Saturday, September 5, 2026
Cliff Weitzman elaborated on why Speechify chooses to own its GPU infrastructure, emphasizing the necessity of co-located memory with a large cluster of GPUs for effective large-scale training. He stated that renting from cloud providers doesn't offer the required memory accessibility for their specific training needs.
“The other big part is actually if you want to do large scale training like we do. You need the memory to be co-located with a large cluster of GPUs.”
“I can't just rent from Google or Microsoft or even Baseten and run the size of training that I want because I need a gigantic memory card next to it with all of my data that all the GPUs are accessing.”