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The Bitcoin mining farms in China are not rented out to western customers. They do not sell the raw processing power. They sell the finished product: mined bloc
by ArtTimeInvestor 5y ago
The Bitcoin mining farms in China are not rented out to western customers. They do not sell the raw processing power. They sell the finished product: mined blocks.
They could do the same for ML. Sell the trained models.
- throwaway-8c93 5y agoThe trained model is a guarded treasure. There's a reason why very few ML papers publish their trained models; or Deepmind/OpenAI never releasing the resulting models - it's expensive to train the network, but cheap to use it afterwards. You don't want anyone unauthorized to get their hands on it.
- ArtTimeInvestor 5y agoWell, somehow the models must be monetized. Either by giving them to the customer (Like Tesla will put them into cars) or by letting the customer interact with them via the internet (SaaS). Either way - if the production of the models is most efficient in China, then we should see them being made in China.