They’re just wildly successful terrible engineers who can describe problems well and have unlimited token budgets. If they were paying for their own token use, the software would be better, they simply don’t have financial incentive to be more performant.
A dirty secret of AI data centers are that they’re only getting 40-60% efficiency out of their GPU clusters and because the moneygun go brrrrr they just buy more.
You wonder why they’re so afraid of the Chinese competition… they can’t afford to be as wasteful
I’m considering moving my family to China to be proximate and to witness the next rise of a superpower. I was too young for the 80’s US computer boom, and in collage for the .com one. The Web 2.0 rise only produced a small handful of winners. China seems boundless.
Afghanistan didn’t have poppy production till it was allowed by the Bush administration. Their primary exports were food stuffs but it was easy to spoil the Iranians and Russians with cheap drugs that ruin society. This was patterned after the british opium wars but done at a funky scale. Now our chickens have come to roost now that pill based pain medication has gotten so hard… life finds a way.
It would be nice if PayPal did an HP/Autonomy like clawback. The founders of Honey were frauds from the start and this was coordinated grift that enriched VCs and their founders at PayPal’s expense.
It’s just concrete proof that Nvidia as well as all of the big LLMs just stole their training data. I mean this has their legal team mulling their risks. Good artists copy, great ones steal. All hail Scam Altman!
A dirty secret of AI data centers are that they’re only getting 40-60% efficiency out of their GPU clusters and because the moneygun go brrrrr they just buy more.
You wonder why they’re so afraid of the Chinese competition… they can’t afford to be as wasteful