Hugging Face is sharing $10M worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies
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Re: Hugging Face is sharing $10M worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies
#2Going to be hard to beat Big AI companies with 10M in compute when these companies are spending 10s of Billions on compute each quarter.
Re: Hugging Face is sharing $10M worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies
#3Going to be hard to beat Big AI companies with 10M in compute when these companies are spending 10s of Billions on compute each quarter.
What are the options then?
Re: Hugging Face is sharing $10M worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies
#4Going to be hard to beat Big AI companies with 10M in compute when these companies are spending 10s of Billions on compute each quarter.
"Contrasting this modest effort [of Seymour Cray in his laboratory
to build the CDC 6600] with 34 people including the janitor with
our vast development activities, I fail to understand why we have
lost our industry leadership position by letting someone else offer
the world's most powerful computer.
-- Thomas J. Watson, IBM President, 1965"
"It seems Mr. Watson has answered his own question. -- Seymour Cray"
Re: Hugging Face is sharing $10M worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies
#5Are they sharing it to make TTS models of Scarlet Johansson like their CTO suggested.
Tech bros.
Re: Hugging Face is sharing $10M worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies
#6Going to be hard to beat Big AI companies with 10M in compute when these companies are spending 10s of Billions on compute each quarter.
What are the options then?
On an induvidual level people are beating them by creating vapourware Ai startups and selling them to the big tech companies for stupid valuations, before proceeding to the roof for a bit of rest and vest.
Re: Hugging Face is sharing $10M worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies
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#9At what impact to the environment? SV’s obsession with bitcoin has been an ecological disaster. Fueling this arms race is insane. Monopolizing green power for AI crap that hallucinates, gives mediocre and incorrect answers, is like getting life advice from a drunk bar patron.