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OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform

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Re: OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform

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bavell wrote: post #28
pubg wrote: post #23

Lots of shade being thrown, I'm surprised at all the toxic bile. All cloud providers are fundamentally in a race to the bottom for commoditization of compute infrastructure. The competition should be desirable. Anyhow, if I had to guess why ClosedAI made this decision, well there are lots of big companies who like Oracle Cloud because if the spend is sufficient, Oracle will literally build and then support whatever c…

6+ years on GCP across half a dozen kubernetes clusters here... very little to complain about IME. Have fun with Oracle.

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Re: OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform

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Post by jiggawatts »

cjk2 wrote: post #12
behnamoh wrote: post #9

Lots of negative comments about Oracle. If they're so bad, how come PMs and higher ups keep choosing them? Is there no resistance voice from engineers? Edit: I'm getting downvoted by engineers. I guess they have to vent somehow... How about take your downvote to the PM who's going to sign a new Oracle contract?

From experience working with these people for many years, it is mostly because they are fuckwits. No joke. Literally no objectivity or capability to reason about logically. The first vendor that gets in the door and shows them a shiny turd and they sign a contract which is difficult to get out of. Anyone who is technical in those orgs is either very junior and stepped straight in a cow shit out of college, has a pens…

In case you’re wondering if this is hyperbole — it’s not. This is my daily lived experience at $dayjob.

Re: OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform

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Post by browningstreet »

virtuosarmo wrote: post #52

On their conference call tonight, Larry Ellison indicated Oracle will be building a dedicated data center for OpenAI to use for training, with 1 GW of power, and its own power plant and DLC. Stocked with newest NVIDIA chips.

OpenAIs govt services hub? #speculation

Re: OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform

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Post by chucke1992 »

mikeocool wrote: post #5
Someone1234 wrote: post #4

Oracle Cloud is a bad product and I wouldn't recommend. I'm guessing Oracle practically gifted OpenAI compute to make this possible and that this announcement is the whole purpose (i.e. "look at us, we're equal to AWS/Azure!!! OpenAI runs here!!!"). Oracle and Google Cloud have been doing this stuff constantly .

Given that Microsoft and Google are already giving away huge amounts of compute to AI companies, Oracle must be outright paying them to do this.

Well, Microsoft is also using Oracle cloud. I mean, somebody has to use Oracle cloud after all lol

Re: OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform

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Post by tiffanyh »

Someone1234 wrote: post #4

Oracle Cloud is a bad product and I wouldn't recommend. I'm guessing Oracle practically gifted OpenAI compute to make this possible and that this announcement is the whole purpose (i.e. "look at us, we're equal to AWS/Azure!!! OpenAI runs here!!!"). Oracle and Google Cloud have been doing this stuff constantly .

Have you actually used it?

Re: OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform

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Post by FireBeyond »

behnamoh wrote: post #9

Lots of negative comments about Oracle. If they're so bad, how come PMs and higher ups keep choosing them? Is there no resistance voice from engineers? Edit: I'm getting downvoted by engineers. I guess they have to vent somehow... How about take your downvote to the PM who's going to sign a new Oracle contract?

> How about take your downvote to the PM who's going to sign a new Oracle contract?

LOL at the thought your average Senior PM at any decent size org is the one deciding what cloud provider the company is going with...

Re: OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform

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Post by lostmsu »

crowcroft wrote: post #10
Someone1234 wrote: post #4

Oracle Cloud is a bad product and I wouldn't recommend. I'm guessing Oracle practically gifted OpenAI compute to make this possible and that this announcement is the whole purpose (i.e. "look at us, we're equal to AWS/Azure!!! OpenAI runs here!!!"). Oracle and Google Cloud have been doing this stuff constantly .

I've found Oracle's free tier quite generous. I guess OpenAI does as well.

They've been out of instances for years on free tier now. E.g. there is no free Ampere available anymore effectively.

Re: OpenAI Selects Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Extend Microsoft Azure AI Platform

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Post by tmpz22 »

ignoramous wrote: post #40
Someone1234 wrote: post #4

Oracle Cloud is a bad product and I wouldn't recommend. I'm guessing Oracle practically gifted OpenAI compute to make this possible and that this announcement is the whole purpose (i.e. "look at us, we're equal to AWS/Azure!!! OpenAI runs here!!!"). Oracle and Google Cloud have been doing this stuff constantly .

> "look at us, we're equal to AWS/Azure!!! OpenAI runs here!!!" Possible, as they have lost deals even in countries where they enjoy MFN: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/oracle-ceo-confus... / https://archive.is/zO35B

TIL MFN: Most-Favored-Nation

Wikipedia:

> In international economic relations and international politics, most favoured nation is a status or level of treatment accorded by one state to another in international trade.

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