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Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure

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Re: Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure

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I know we won't get it this from FB, but I'd be really interested to see how the relationship of compute power to engineering hours scales.

They mention custom building as much as they can. If FB magically has the option to 10x the compute power, would they need to re-engineer the whole stack? What about 100x? Is each of these re-writes just a re-write, or is it a whole order of magnitude more complex?

My technical understanding of what's under the hood of these clusters is pretty surface level- super curious if anyone with relevant experience has thoughts?

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