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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

really looking forward to how these multi-billion dollar AI datacenter investments will work out for big tech companies

that said I'm pretty sure most of that capacity is reserved for the surveillance state anyway

[–] Donkter 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This makes sense why googles AI is famously bad. Trying to serve AI to every customer when 200/mo wont do it has to mean they're cutting so many corners.

I wonder who's telling lies to Apple that their AI assistant is going to be cost effective?

[–] chonglibloodsport 2 points 2 weeks ago

Apple’s been trying to get AI running on people’s devices directly, avoiding the huge data centre costs. But now people are starting to means having gigantic models using up storage on the phone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

I’m excited for the used hardware dump