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Re:OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips and evaluates... by keenmaster on Friday October 06, 2023 @10:47AM (#37791517)
I bet OpenAI is trying to figure out how to have self-improving AI which suggests modifications to the hardware that runs it. You’d need some hardware expertise in-house for that (in addition to software of course), though not necessarily a big chip company.
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Re:OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips and evaluates... by blibble on Friday October 06, 2023 @11:56AM (#37792440)
you'd need a lot more capital too

a 3mn mask costs what, $20 million each time?

using AI generated vomit for that would get expensive pretty quickly

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Re:OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips and evaluates... by keenmaster on Friday October 06, 2023 @12:40PM (#37793008)
They won’t have trouble getting capital. It’s open checkbooks for them all around.
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Re:OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips and evaluates... by blibble on Friday October 06, 2023 @12:48PM (#37793104)
even small chip manufacturing at the cutting edge has costs 2-3 orders of magnitude above what they're paying to rent some GPUs in azure
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