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Very interesting part around 5 mins in where Zuck says that they bought a shit ton of H100 GPUs a few years ago to build the recommendation engine for Reels to
by paxys 3y ago
Very interesting part around 5 mins in where Zuck says that they bought a shit ton of H100 GPUs a few years ago to build the recommendation engine for Reels to compete with TikTok (2x what they needed at the time, just to be safe), and now they are accidentally one of the very few companies out there with enough GPU capacity to train LLMs at this scale.
- lordswork 3y agoTikTok (ByteDance) is now building an AGI team to train and advance LLMs (towards AGI), probably after realizing they are in a similar scenario.
- Workaccount2 3y agoI don't know how they think they are going to get the required number of GPU's through export controls.
- alsodumb 3y agoAre the export controls to China geographically or any Chinese majority-owned entity? Either way, ByteDance has tons of offices everywhere in the world including Singapore, US, etc. Given the money, I don't think GPU access wouldn't be their biggest problem.
- Solvency 3y ago[flagged]
- cornholio 3y agoThe only thing the Reels algorithm is showing me are videos of ladies with fat butts. Now, I must admit, I may have clicked once on such a video. Should I now be damned to spend an eternity in ass hell?
- originalvichy 3y agoI could have saved them a lot of money by revealing to them that, yes, heterosexual men tend to gravitate towards ladies with fat butts. I have a hunch that some of the more professional folks there game the algorithm. If you ever wanna find a place where people share algo optimization secrets, it’s OF creators on reddit.
- baby 3y agoIt’s easy to populate your feed with things you specifically want to watch: watch the stuff you’re interested in and swipe on the things that don’t interest you.
- cornholio 3y agoReels don't interest me, they are just showed in my face whenever I use Facebook (or should I say Face-butt?). It's impossible to hide without using a custom script/adblock, which I ended up doing, but the only long term, cross device solution is to simply to delete the Facebook account.
- baby 3y agoThey can be useful. My feed is filled with startup advice as well as Chinese lessons. I think a big part of my Chinese vocab comes from watching reels teaching me chinese.