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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

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Going 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

#6

Going 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

#9
At 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.

Re: Hugging Face is sharing $10M worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies

#10

Going 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?

New nontransformer architectures
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