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All said and done, it is a very expensive and balsy way to undercut competitors. They’ve spent > $5B on hardware alone, much of which will depreciate in value q
by sheepscreek 2y ago
All said and done, it is a very expensive and balsy way to undercut competitors. They’ve spent > $5B on hardware alone, much of which will depreciate in value quickly.
Pretty sure the only reason Meta’s managed to do this is because of Zuck’s iron grip on the board (majority voting rights). This is great for Open Source and regular people though!
- wrsh07 2y agoZuck made a bet when they provisioned for reels to buy enough GPUs to be able to spin up another reels-sized service. Llama is probably just running on spare capacity (I mean, sure, they've kept increasing capex, but if they're worried about an llm-based fb competitor they sort of have to in order to enact their copycat strategy)
- fractalf 2y agoWell, he didn't do it to be "nice", you can be sure about that. Obviously they see a financial gain somewhere/sometime
- tambourine_man 2y agoAt Meta level, spending $5B to stay competitive is not balsy. It’s a bargain.