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Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation

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Re: Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation

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Post by chis »

A16Z is consistently the most embarrassing VC firm at any given point in time. I guess optimistically they might be doing “outrage marketing” but it feels more like one of those places where the CEO is just an idiot and tells his employees to jump on every trend.

The funny part is that they still make money. It seems like once you’ve got the connections, being a VC is a very easy job these days.

Re: Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation

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Post by aliljet »

This article is a great way to showcase A16Z standinging head and shoulders above other VCs with REAL technical expertise in the partnership. Love reading this kind of stuff, but the article really needs a price to put this in perspective. It would be the VC that would ignore price, lol, but roughing this out it looks like it costs 45k to build this thing. Seems, at first glance, that this is a cost efficient way to dodge buying a Kia Carnival and get a tier-1 GPU workstation..

Re: Building A16Z's Personal AI Workstation

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Post by henning »

> access to raw compute is still one of the biggest bottlenecks

> We are planning to test and make a limited number of these

So this does approximately nothing to solve the original problem of supply and cost. Even if you sold it at a loss, that GPU is still going to be expensive.

Just be honest and say you thought it would be cool and you're not Y Combinator so you gotta do whatever you can to make your firm seem like a special smart kids club.

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