Comment by dist-epoch

4 hours ago

US is the vast majority of their market - Apple, hyper-scalers, AI labs

Why can't they just buy the exact same product and install it in Kazakhstan or somewhere else?

  • The RAM buyers have no interest in entertaining something like that because their revenue comes mainly from the US, too.

    Corporations avoid picking fights with large nations where lots of revenue comes from for very obvious reasons.

    • So in other words, if Koreans and Europeans decide not to sell their stuff to America,quits the AI race and the capitalist do something else instead? I don't think so, in the hypothetical world where Korea and Europe don't sell to US, the American money that is invested in AI will go wherever they can actually build it, the people who are using these machines to build those models are mostly immigrants anyway.

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