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Comment by tw04

16 hours ago

What advantage? Has there ever been any indication they’re leading in any segment? Sure Elon has thrown a bunch of money at hardware, but to what end?

And frankly as bad as Altman is from a: if AI is really going to disrupt humanity do I want this guy in charge? Elon is 10x worse. So why would the best and the brightest ever work for him?

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eightysixfour  16 hours ago

In a compute starved world, big ass data centers are an advantage.

  • loktarogar  15 hours ago

    yes, but it's only advantage if one is compute-strained and the other isn't. if they both have lots then there's no advantage. if one doesn't fully utilise their compute then it's not an advantage either

  • 8note  15 hours ago

    can you elucidate what that advantage is, that isnt renting it out for the highest price to somebody that really needs it?

    • eightysixfour  15 hours ago

      Well, other than your ability to turn that into cash by renting it out for the highest price to someone who needs it, you can promise prospective employees that are supposed to use that infra to train models that they won’t be compute starved.

      You can kick off more model training runs and experiments than your competitors.

      You can kick off a $1-2t IPO claiming you are going to capture a large portion of the largest TAM the world has ever seen.

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