
Paulo Valente
Maintainer of NX (Numerical Elixir) and the Elixir gRPC library, and a platform engineer at TV Labs with eight years of Elixir experience; discusses the NX ecosystem and its machine learning capabilities in depth.
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Mar 13, 2026 • 37min
Numerical Elixir and Machine Learning with Paulo Valente
Paulo Valente, maintainer of NX and Elixir gRPC library and platform engineer at TV Labs with eight years of Elixir experience. He walks through the NX ecosystem and how defn/backends compile to CPU, GPU, or WebAssembly. They compare when to use NX versus Python, explore zero-copy Python and GPU interop, and outline NX 1.0 goals, versioning, and getting started resources.

Dec 14, 2024 • 1h 16min
Paulo Valente on Nx
Paulo Valente, R&D software engineer and maintainer of Nx, builds numerical computing and ML tooling for Elixir. He explains what Nx is and how tensors work. He dives into backends, compilers, and performance tips. He covers Axon and Bumblebee for models, CPU vs GPU tradeoffs, partitioning and sharding, and running ML on Mac and mobile.


