Sam Altman:

A lot of people want local inference, and somehow they assume that the problem is solved now because we have open-source models, we're going to be able to run them on our computers, and so we're not going to need all the stuff in the data center.

But from a global allocation perspective, actually it's quite terrible to have everybody, like, have a bunch of the world's limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer and being used five percent of the time.

Like you want maximum utilisation in the cloud if you're trying to deal with this very supply-constrained environment,

And somehow many people's intuition is the opposite of that

TL;DR Guy selling product: "Here's why owning your own product instead of renting it from me is a terrible idea"

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[–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What I find hilarious about all this clippy 2.0 shit, is that tech doesn't stay relevant for long. It's not like a car or house that can be used for 20 years like a car or 100+ for a house or longer...it becomes obsolete pretty quickly. Just go on eBay and you will see a fuck ton of smx2 and smx3 gpus for pennies of what they originally cost these idiots.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Yeah, they say on the spreadsheets that these cards have a lifetime of 5-6 years when in reality it's between 2 and 3.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    5-6 is laughable for these guys... you're %100 correct. 5-6 years is for companies running their own stuff and even then, if you're hosting for clients that have any security measures in place, they will not be happy with you running aging and potentially EOL/S equipment.

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