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@whimsical Other companies have the same problem :P
I think cloud AI will become very expensive soon. There's only so much money investors will let them burn -
@whimsical The unfortunate problem is still that AI doesn't scale like software: You can sell 1 total or 1 million software licenses/subscriptions without any significant increase in spending. But for AI, 1 million users need 1 million more compute capacity than 1 user! It scales pretty much linearly
When you wanted to know deep learning immediately
That's not AI.
Just doing some math about AI financials and its pretty crazy:
A one-gigawatt data center allegedly costs $50 billion to build.
Lets say its written off totally over 5 years. The building, cooling and power infra won't be,
but the GPUs and CPUs -- which are really expensive -- will be much quicker than 5 years,
so I think this is a fair assumption, not to mention personell and power costs
$50 billion over 5 years is $833 million per month, divided by $20 is 41 million
OpenAI needs 41 MILLION (!!) customers that pay $20 a month just to pay for
this ONE data center, and obviously they require a lot more than that
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