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Has there been any rumors or statements from Facebook on them eventually stepping into selling cloud compute? I'd be surprised if they are investing in building
by notfried 3y ago
Has there been any rumors or statements from Facebook on them eventually stepping into selling cloud compute? I'd be surprised if they are investing in building hardware accelerators just for their own services.
- mgdev 3y agoTheir footprint for just their own services rivals some other public clouds.
- bradleyjg 3y agoI think they’d be bad at it for the same reason google is bad it. Enterprise sales is not in their dna.
- sebzim4500 3y agoThe AI inference/training market is so competitive that I doubt enterprise sales is going to be the problem. A company planning on spending $50M training a model is not going to be convinced by some smooth talking sales guy over a golf game. They will look at the actual price/performance.
- bradleyjg 3y agoYou’d be surprised. Azure is growing like gangbusters on the backs of smooth talking salesmen taking CTOs golfing.
- foverzar 3y agoGiven that these chips seem to be power optimised and Facebook's recently released sensory model, I wouldn't be surprised to see them in their next iteration of VR devices.