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Michael Balaban

Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Lambda; author of Lambda's GPU deep learning benchmarks

  • Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Lambda1

Michael Balaban is a co-founder and the Chief Product Officer of Lambda, which builds GPU cloud and AI infrastructure. Balaban has written GPU benchmark and hardware guides on Lambda's blog, including deep learning benchmarks of the Titan RTX and A100 versus V100 GPUs, a guide to choosing GPUs for deep learning, and an explainer on GPT-3.123645

Career

Balaban is listed among Lambda's founders, alongside Stephen Balaban, and serves as the company's Chief Product Officer.1

Writing

Balaban's posts on Lambda's blog focus on GPU hardware for deep learning, with benchmarks of the Titan RTX (2018) and of the A100 against the V100 (2021), and a 2020 guide to choosing GPUs given the memory needs of large models. In July 2020 Balaban also published a guide to GPT-3.36452

Work

Career timeline

  1. Dec 26, 2018

    Published Titan RTX deep learning benchmarks on Lambda's blog.3

  2. Feb 18, 2020

    Published a guide to choosing GPUs for deep learning.4

  3. Jul 20, 2020

    Published "GPT-3 A Hitchhiker's Guide" on Lambda's blog.5

  4. Jan 28, 2021

    Published A100 versus V100 deep learning benchmarks.6

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References · reviewed Oct 22, 2026

  1. 1.
    Lambda — Leadership (external site: lambda.ai)

    Lambda · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026

  2. 2.
    Michael Balaban — Lambda blog author page (external site: lambda.ai)

    Lambda · Official page · accessed Oct 22, 2026

  3. 3.
    Titan RTX Deep Learning Benchmarks (external site: lambda.ai)

    Lambda · Official page · published Dec 26, 2018 · accessed Oct 22, 2026

  4. 4.
    Choosing the Best GPU for Deep Learning in 2020 (external site: lambda.ai)

    Lambda · Official page · published Feb 18, 2020 · accessed Oct 22, 2026

  5. 5.
    GPT-3 A Hitchhiker's Guide (external site: lambda.ai)

    Lambda · Official page · published Jul 20, 2020 · accessed Oct 22, 2026

  6. 6.
    A100 vs V100 Deep Learning Benchmarks (external site: lambda.ai)

    Lambda · Official page · published Jan 28, 2021 · accessed Oct 22, 2026

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