I can't tell what this is about.

Do you remember the days of “mongodb is web-scale”? It’s that but “spiral is ai-scale”

I think I understood it as the database will basically store data in a binary format that can be fed into the GPU directly, and will also be optimized for streaming/batching large chunks of data at ounce.

So it's "optimized for machines to consume" meaning the GPU.

Their use case was training ML models where you need to feed the GPU massive datasets as part of training.

They seem to claim that training is now bottlenecked by how quickly you can feed the GPU, that otherwise the GPU is basically "waiting on IO" most of the time and not actual computing because the time goes in just grabbing the next piece of data, transforming it for GPU consumption, and then feeding it into the GPU.

But I'm not an expert, this is just my take from the article.

"I've been building data systems for long enough to be skeptical of “revolutionary” claims, and I’m uncomfortable with grandiose statements like “Built for the AI Era”. Nevertheless, ...

... i'm gonna make revolutionary claims and grandiose statements like "built for the ai era".

my reading that it will be some hyper-performant db thanks to some very low level optimization utilizing recent hw advancements and formats/pipelines unification and simplification.

Probably either overcoming giant robots with the power of friendship and a giant drill, or a cursed village with an obsession-inducing whirlpool.