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-3.123456
At a glance
- Current role
- Co-founder and Chief Product Officer
- Company
- Lambda
- Sector
- Company
- Fields
- Chips and hardware
- Work listed
- 1
- Sources cited
- 6
- Profile reviewed
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-3.34562
Work and contributions
Lambda GPU deep learning benchmarks Show, channel or publication
Authored Lambda blog posts benchmarking deep learning training performance across GPUs, including the Titan RTX and the A100 compared with the V100.234
Timeline
Where they work
- Lambda 3 people in the wiki
Related people
- Stephen BalabanAlso at Lambda
- Mitesh AgrawalAlso at Lambda
- Naveen RaoChips and hardware
- Kunle OlukotunChips and hardware
- Sudeep BhojaChips and hardware
- Chuck RobbinsChips and hardware
- Hock E. TanChips and hardware
- Hani JamjoomChips and hardware
- Fidelma M. RussoChips and hardware
- Piotr BialeckiChips and hardware
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References
6 sources · profile reviewed Oct 22, 2026 · data updated Oct 22, 2026