The CTO of Alibaba announced it earlier last week.

The buyouts were offered to their aging orgs. Datacenter workers, quantum, MAI, sales and marketing, and cybersecurity were not included. https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/articles/microsofts-buyout-offer-employees-shows-135510739.html

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/loss https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/is-this-loss https://trending.knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-loss-the-classic-ctrlaltdel-webcomic-and-meme-explained

Tide pods.

The cloud servers are actually literally Xbox series x's.

Ah, I may have to clarify that technically Microsoft isn't the AI bro I'm referring to, though they do partake in the insanity. I'm referring to OpenAI specifically. "circular financing" and all that, but Microsoft is more of the hosting provider for OpenAI.

Xbox cloud servers are literally 5 motherboards: 1 management board and 4 Xbox ones. Developers can optimize for a single configuration rather than bake in support for multiple ones. Once it works on an Xbox dev kit, it works on all Xboxs including cloud, console, and handheld. SDKs are making that a thing in the past, but it's not perfect.

I feel that it is more in-depth and more accurate than most media on it. They acknowledge that they had to personify it to appeal to humanity. Despite being in the thick of it, I do think it's a good video to share to those lesser in the know. They explain it in easy to digest language without glossing over the technical workings of it. They are anti-Ai purely out of self-preservation and admit it in another video (which is manipulative).

They are sitting in the warehouse because there aren't enough other parts (e.g. DIMMs), power, or data centers for them. And as stupid as AI bullshit is, they are paying more than gamers by orders of magnitude.

Xbox and PC versions aren't exactly 1:1. Plus, those are extremely expensive GPUs to not be selling for top dollar to the AI bros instead.

Edit- I'm leaving out things like architecture, shaders, tensor cores, NVIDIA vs AMD, SXM vs PCI-E, etc.

They aren't the same GPUs that are in Xboxs. those are nvidia GPUs eg the nv72 or gb300. There's no way to make them compatible with Xbox. Source: my unc works at Microsoft data centers.