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Comment · 4 months ago
Ericsson used a lot of power chips in their telecom hardware 10 years ago at least, haven't worked with their stuff since then so I haven't kept up.
Comment · 4 months ago
I wonder how much much renewables you would get for the same 100 billion investment though. How much battery storage does even 50 billion get you.
Comment · 5 months ago
The problem with going for open source models is that you are betting on some third party to keep doing expensive model training and releasing it for free, forever. What do you do if deepseek never release another update to the model?
Comment · 6 months ago
Inference cannot happen without training the model first, so the distinction is quite pointless.
Comment · 6 months ago
I'd rather turn into reddit than turn into a nazi.
Comment · 7 months ago
His first sentence is literally disclaiming that he is in an outlier market.
Comment · 8 months ago
Sam Altman is just another Elon Musk. Saying whatever he thinks sounds good in the moment.
Comment · 8 months ago
The problem is that Nvidia cannot make infinite amounts of chips so they actually can't pick up both.
Comment · 8 months ago
The assertion that an uncensored internet is a better world should probably require some motivation.

If everyone was a normal (as far as anyone is normal) law abiding citizen perhaps I would agree, but sadly that is far from the case. I think history has quite clearly shown that there is a minority of people out there that will take advantage and ruin things for everyone else. It's the same reason we have militaries, police forces, government checks and balances, etc. The internet is no exception to this.

I don't think the world is simple enough where anyone could be absolutist about freedom, it's all grey areas and complicated lines drawn.

Comment · 8 months ago
But most of their funding comes from speculative investment, not selling their services. Also, wouldn't selling their own products/services generate revenue?
Comment · 8 months ago
> And they keep forgetting the purpose of software is to serve users, not developers.

Developers are the users of these software stacks though? I don't really understand your point.

Comment · 8 months ago
One thing I like to think about is: If these models were so powerful why would they ever sell access? They could just build endless products to sell, likely outcompeting anyone else who needs to employ humans. And if not building their own products they could be the highest value contractor ever.

If you had midas touch would you rent it out?

Comment · 8 months ago
Stop just making up excuses for these companies. Other comments on this story have showed the bots are using openai user agents and making requests from openai owned ip ranges.
Comment · 8 months ago
Azure keeps randomly breaking our resources without any service health notifications or heads up, it's very fun living in microsofts world.
Comment · 9 months ago
I think it's actually the other way around, satellites need to be specifically designed to burn up fast in the atmosphere. See for example the warnings about space debris from Chinese satellites not designed with this in mind.

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