In a recent appearance on the Cheeky Pint podcast, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said it's 'terrible' to have RAM sitting in personal computers when it could be in data centers. He made the remark while also discussing AI's effect on math. The comment was made when he was asked about the ongoing RAM shortage and supply chain issues.
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Amazon CEO Jassy said Thursday that the company aims to become the first $1 trillion revenue business, with a focus on AI cloud computing. To reach that goal, Amazon will need to continue its heavy capital spending, according to Jassy. The remarks highlight the company's ambition in the AI cloud market.
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When business leaders tally up AI spending, their mental image usually centers on high-powered chips and the scramble to secure them. Yet the quieter cost sits in what happens after a model finishes replying. Billions of prompts, images, and videos generated each day leave behind a mountain of backend data that has to live somewhere.
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A growing number of AI labs are turning to neoclouds for their computing needs. These companies, including CoreWeave and Nebius, rent out Nvidia GPUs to power artificial intelligence workloads. What sets some of them apart is their origin: several started out mining cryptocurrency before pivoting to AI infrastructure.
Would you trust a former crypto mining firm to run your AI workloads?