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The exabox is interesting. I wonder who the customer is; after watching the Vera Rubin launch, I cannot imagine deciding I wanted to compete with NVIDIA for hyp
by vessenes 7mo ago
The exabox is interesting. I wonder who the customer is; after watching the Vera Rubin launch, I cannot imagine deciding I wanted to compete with NVIDIA for hyperscale business right now. Maybe it’s aiming at a value-conscious buyer? Maybe it’s a sensible buy for a (relatively) cash-strapped ML startup; actually I just checked prices, and it looks like Vera Rubin costs half for a similar amount of GPU RAM. I’m certain that the interconnect will not be as good as NV’s.
I have no idea who would buy this. Maybe if you think Vera Rubin is three years out? But NV ships, man, they are shipping.
- zozbot234 7mo ago> The exabox is interesting. Can it run Crysis?
- bastawhiz 7mo agoProbably, the rdna5 can do graphics. But it would be a huge waste, since you could probably only use one of the 720 GPUs
- WithinReason 7mo agoOnly gamers understand that reference -- Jensen Huang
- dist-epoch 7mo agoYes, it can generate Crysis with diffusion models at 60 fps.
- kulahan 7mo agoSometimes you can compete with the big boys simply because they built their infra 5+ years ago and it’s not economically viable for them to upgrade yet, because it’s a multi-billion dollar process for them. They can run a deficit to run you out of the business, but if you’re taking less than 0.01% of their business, I doubt they’d give a crap.
- h14h 7mo agoHave to imagine each tinybox is targeting different tiers of startups trying to fine-tune/RL their way to custom models for narrow use-cases. Maybe the target profile for exabox looks like a smaller/younger Cursor? If you're a small team with some seed funding and expertise, this kind of compute in a single box you can set up in your office feels like it could be a great fit.