TornadoVM, Paravox.ai: Java, AI, LLMs and Hardware Acceleration

An airhacks.fm conversation with Juan Fumero (@snatverk) about:
Juan previously appeared in the episode "#250 FPGAs, GPUs or Data Science with Java",
using Tornado to run Java programs on GPUs/accelerators,
integrating AI models with Java applications,
potential of using Tornado and Project Babylon together,
discussion around tensor types in Java,
Paul Sandoz appeared in the episode "#277 Project Babylon",
Heterogeneous Accelerator Toolkit by Gary Frost,
TornadoVM and LLama port,
Hybrid API for Deep Learning acceleration and the new Panama-based types: TornadoVM talk at JVMLS'23,
TornadoVM 1.0 Release notes,
Alfonso Peterssen ported llama to Java,
Initial Java port from the GraalVM team,
Java / AI startup: paravox.ai
Juan Fumero on twitter: @snatverk