Alex Zhang understood that serious participation in ML Systems and MLPerf benchmarks mostly comes from serious labs and companies, while acknowledging that this understanding might be wrong.

“like somewhat not secondary but like you can participate in them to learn i think with a lot of like ml sys ml perf kind of benchmarks like for the most part like only serious labs and companies participate like like seriously in them at least that's that was my understanding of it um i could be wrong but i think also beyond gpu mode now one thing that has been really exciting is there's a lot more websites and like people that”