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Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

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Re: Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

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Post by eightysixfour »

8note wrote: post #26
eightysixfour wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In a compute starved world, big ass data centers are an advantage.

can you elucidate what that advantage is, that isnt renting it out for the highest price to somebody that really needs it?

Well, other than your ability to turn that into cash by renting it out for the highest price to someone who needs it, you can promise prospective employees that are supposed to use that infra to train models that they won’t be compute starved.

You can kick off more model training runs and experiments than your competitors.

You can kick off a $1-2t IPO claiming you are going to capture a large portion of the largest TAM the world has ever seen.

Re: Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

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Post by eightysixfour »

loktarogar wrote: post #25
eightysixfour wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In a compute starved world, big ass data centers are an advantage.

yes, but it's only advantage if one is compute-strained and the other isn't. if they both have lots then there's no advantage. if one doesn't fully utilise their compute then it's not an advantage either

Well, it appears all their competitors are compute starved so…

Re: Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

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Post by idle_zealot »

georgemcbay wrote: post #24
gaze wrote: post #18

I think that's the datacenter with the gas turbine generators that operate without permits because they're "portable." Data centers have tremendous externalities but colossus is a particularly nasty offender, and not just due its size. Edit: They did it with Colossus and now they're doing the exact same thing with Colossus2. https://www.selc.org/news/xai-built-an-illegal-power-plant-t...

Yup, and now Anthropic is complicit in the environmental damage and health problems for local residents that these data centers are causing. But hey, number must go up, right?

Have you considered that the march of progress requires human blood to grease the gears and mulched skulls to pave the (highly efficient) road? Really, when you take into account all of the future lives this will improve and save it's difficult to claim any cost now is too high. Would you stand in their way and delay the day that Mythos cures cancer?

This is a joke. Read it in a mocking tone.

Re: Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

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Post by gdiamos »

thelastgallon wrote: post #8
fasbg1 wrote: post #5

I though Claude is too woke. Musk has posted that at least 50 times in the last year. But booking outrageous rental fees as fake AI revenue ahead of the SpaceX IPO apparently takes precedence.

Musk will buy Anthropic and fix the wokeness. It was done before.

Don’t put it past Dario to buy spaceX

Re: Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

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Post by Johnny_Bonk »

idle_zealot wrote: post #34
georgemcbay wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, and now Anthropic is complicit in the environmental damage and health problems for local residents that these data centers are causing. But hey, number must go up, right?

Have you considered that the march of progress requires human blood to grease the gears and mulched skulls to pave the (highly efficient) road? Really, when you take into account all of the future lives this will improve and save it's difficult to claim any cost now is too high. Would you stand in their way and delay the day that Mythos cures cancer? This is a joke. Read it in a mocking tone.

I loled

Re: Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

#37

Post by root_axis »

8note wrote: post #26
eightysixfour wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In a compute starved world, big ass data centers are an advantage.

can you elucidate what that advantage is, that isnt renting it out for the highest price to somebody that really needs it?

Training a model that is larger than your competitor's.

Re: Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

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Post by LogicFailsMe »

idle_zealot wrote: post #34
georgemcbay wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, and now Anthropic is complicit in the environmental damage and health problems for local residents that these data centers are causing. But hey, number must go up, right?

Have you considered that the march of progress requires human blood to grease the gears and mulched skulls to pave the (highly efficient) road? Really, when you take into account all of the future lives this will improve and save it's difficult to claim any cost now is too high. Would you stand in their way and delay the day that Mythos cures cancer? This is a joke. Read it in a mocking tone.

I'm not saying human blood and mulched skulls are a renewable source of power, I'm just saying. Or maybe they can partner with SoulCycle to power computation with 24/7 spin classes?

Re: Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

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Post by projektfu »

idle_zealot wrote: post #34
georgemcbay wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, and now Anthropic is complicit in the environmental damage and health problems for local residents that these data centers are causing. But hey, number must go up, right?

Have you considered that the march of progress requires human blood to grease the gears and mulched skulls to pave the (highly efficient) road? Really, when you take into account all of the future lives this will improve and save it's difficult to claim any cost now is too high. Would you stand in their way and delay the day that Mythos cures cancer? This is a joke. Read it in a mocking tone.

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