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They are suggesting that anti-trust is an excuse to perform industrial espionage. France is, however, also the top anti-trust and pro-consumer enforcer in the E
by kamray23 3y ago
They are suggesting that anti-trust is an excuse to perform industrial espionage. France is, however, also the top anti-trust and pro-consumer enforcer in the EU, which in many sectors leads the world in consumer protection regulations. There is no reason to assume it was done for industrial espionage reasons, especially as NVIDIA France is explicitly already a French company producing these AI chips.
- hef19898 3y agoAh, all those poor, prosecuted tech giants and multi-nationals... I'll shed I tear for them when I have time, or not. Explicitly including all former, current and potentially future employers. All of which raked in at least 10s of millions of anti-trust and other non-compliance fines, in some cases reaching billions. Don't do the crime if you don't have the dime, I guess.
- ginko 3y agoThe idea that only tech giants and multi-nationals get access to high-end AI accelerators is the main problem IMO. Nvidia keeps private individuals and hobbyists from access to affordable GPUs that can be used for machine learning by intentionally gimping the available memory in their consumer cards.
- hef19898 3y agoSounds like a potential anti-trust case to me, right?
- touisteur 3y agoSounds like 'we (French/Europeans) should get off our asses and build our own AI infra, twenty years ago' and instead grasp at straws whining that distribution of resources in very high demand by a for-profit American company is unfair. I see the lack of will around SiPearl, or the sad state of e.g. Kalray, and I say we deserve our place in the queue. No serious sustained ambition there. Or maybe We're betting on scrapiness and ingenuity and that once the LLM-740B-parameters dust settles, we'll find frugal alternatives...