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IIUC it's an open question whether they have the electricity to actually run all the "compute" they own on paper. That aside, I'm not sure why it's particularl
by 27183 11d ago
IIUC it's an open question whether they have the electricity to actually run all the "compute" they own on paper.
That aside, I'm not sure why it's particularly interesting they have all this "compute" (let's just assume for the sake of argument it's all "live"--that is they can actually run workloads on all of the "compute" they have on paper). So what if it's the biggest amount ever? Why would that be meaningful? Is there some economically viable problem you're aware of that is somehow dominant in that way?
- steveBK123 11d agoWell yes, we used to talk about "supercomputers" in the hands of state actors for cracking into enemy systems and places like science labs for working on big hard problems of DNA, the universe, and the like. So I think part of what is going on now is not just the method (LLMs) but the means (supercomputer levels of compute) at unprecedented scale of concentration.