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Comment by paxys

2 days ago

Didn't work for Meta

Or Apple. Also Microsoft who were the ones bankrolling OpenAI before it started floating on its own equity.

In point of fact money to throw at AI development is essentially free, not one of the big players sustains itself on income. Investors are throwing every dollar they have at everyone with a usable pitch.

Whatever advantages Google had, financial stability is way, way down the list. For better theories, look to "Proven Leader at Scaling Datacenters" and "Decoupled from the CUDA Cartel via being an early moving on custom AI hardware".