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> The compute moat is getting absolutely insane. We're basically at the point where you need a small country's GDP just to stay in the game for one more generat
by docdeek 1y ago
> The compute moat is getting absolutely insane. We're basically at the point where you need a small country's GDP just to stay in the game for one more generation of models.
For what it is worth, $13 billion is about the GDP of Somalia (about 150th in nomimal GDP) with a population of 15 million people.
- Aeolun 1y agoAs a fun comparison, because I saw the population is more or less the same. The GDP of the Netherlands is about $1.2 trillion with a population of 18 million people. I understand that that’s not quite what’s meant with ‘small country’ but in both population and size it doesn’t necessarily seem accurate.
- Aurornis 1y agoCountry scale is weird because it has such a large range. California (where Anthropic is headquartered) has over twice as many people as all of Somalia. The state of California has a GDP of $4.1 Trillion. $13 billion is a rounding error at that scale. Even the San Francisco Bay Area alone has around half as many people as Somalia.