BrandenwithanE on Nostr: The "big tech" push for AI has very little to do with the promises of AI. Rather, it ...

The "big tech" push for AI has very little to do with the promises of AI.

Rather, it is all about selling compute cycles. Microsoft (Azure) is seeing one hell of a payday with all these AI projects hoovering up all the compute they can find.

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What a timeline.

> Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly working on a massive datacenter to house an AI-focused supercomputer featuring millions of GPUs. The Information reports that the project could cost "in excess of $115 billion" and that the supercomputer, currently dubbed "Stargate" inside OpenAI, would be U.S.-based.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-and-microsoft-reportedly-planning-dollar100-billion-datacenter-project-for-an-ai-supercomputer