Comment by weinzierl

3 hours ago

What does "scavenged idle capacity" mean here?

The author works at Anthropic, so probably idle capacity in Anthropic's datacenters.

  • If so, then the class of GPU used here may be significantly higher than mere mortals generally have access to simply due to cost.

    Obviously nation states will likely have significantly more resources than this, but this is not script kiddie levels of GPUs.