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But how will Musk stay a trillionaire without fake AI hype?

by solumunus 3mo ago

IncreasePosts 3mo ago
Renting his boatload of GPUs to Google, Anthropic, et al
- cyberax 3mo ago
  He doesn't have _that_ many. And they're also not _his_, he just got them from NVidia.
  - wombat-man 3mo ago
    I read that they bought quite a few, but their DC build out is not very fast. Maybe they should just resell the hardware
  - fragmede 3mo ago
    You don't have to like the guy, but buying something is typically how ownership goes. I refer to my car as mine, but I did just buy it from Honda.
    - cyberax 3mo ago
      I mean that it's not his IP, he's not producing any GPUs/TPUs. He's just reselling his idle stock of cards.
      - sourweasel 3mo ago
        Not to be pedantic, but although the datacenters are running Nvidia hardware, Tesla did develop their own 20-core/3-npu high bandwidth chip for their cars. It's nowhere near the computational ability of any datacenter GPU, but at 150+ TOPS it's no slouch either.
embedding-shape 3mo ago
> Just be a rocket company
- estearum 3mo ago
  According to SpaceX's own filing documents, you are incorrect. They must be principally an AI company to justify anything close to their current valuation.
  - embedding-shape 3mo ago
    Get de-facto monopoly on American space launches and I don't think they need to be anything else.
    - Lomlioto 3mo ago
      Payload into space is a very limited business. This doesn't make Space-X such a high valued company at all. And while Space-X is doing its thing, the rest of the world started to move too (china). So first mover advantage is disappearing.
      - embedding-shape 3mo ago
        > Payload into space is a very limited business. Today, sure. In the future, very unlikely. US military and alike are also unlikely to start to rely on China to ship stuff to space.
        Lomlioto 3mo ago
        We already send up a ton of satelites etc. So what will reasonable be the payload we send up which makes Space-X a Trillion dollar company? It will not be Datacenters for at least 50 or 100 years more.
        embedding-shape 3mo ago

But how will Musk stay a trillionaire without fake AI hype?

IncreasePosts 3mo ago

Renting his boatload of GPUs to Google, Anthropic, et al

cyberax 3mo ago
He doesn't have _that_ many. And they're also not _his_, he just got them from NVidia.
- wombat-man 3mo ago
  I read that they bought quite a few, but their DC build out is not very fast. Maybe they should just resell the hardware
- fragmede 3mo ago
  You don't have to like the guy, but buying something is typically how ownership goes. I refer to my car as mine, but I did just buy it from Honda.
  - cyberax 3mo ago
    I mean that it's not his IP, he's not producing any GPUs/TPUs. He's just reselling his idle stock of cards.
    - sourweasel 3mo ago
      Not to be pedantic, but although the datacenters are running Nvidia hardware, Tesla did develop their own 20-core/3-npu high bandwidth chip for their cars. It's nowhere near the computational ability of any datacenter GPU, but at 150+ TOPS it's no slouch either.

embedding-shape 3mo ago

> Just be a rocket company

estearum 3mo ago
According to SpaceX's own filing documents, you are incorrect. They must be principally an AI company to justify anything close to their current valuation.
- embedding-shape 3mo ago
  Get de-facto monopoly on American space launches and I don't think they need to be anything else.
  - Lomlioto 3mo ago
    Payload into space is a very limited business. This doesn't make Space-X such a high valued company at all. And while Space-X is doing its thing, the rest of the world started to move too (china). So first mover advantage is disappearing.
    - embedding-shape 3mo ago
      > Payload into space is a very limited business. Today, sure. In the future, very unlikely. US military and alike are also unlikely to start to rely on China to ship stuff to space.
      - Lomlioto 3mo ago
        We already send up a ton of satelites etc. So what will reasonable be the payload we send up which makes Space-X a Trillion dollar company? It will not be Datacenters for at least 50 or 100 years more.
        embedding-shape 3mo ago