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Re:OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips and evaluates... by cmrdporcupine on Friday October 06, 2023 @10:53AM (#37791581)
Every company is going to want to avoid paying rent on key infrastructure that they rely on for their business, thus the push to own their own IP and means of production in that regard.

It doesn't work out all the time, for sure. In fact it probably fails more than it succeeds. But the motivation is pretty clear.

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Re:OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips and evaluates... by llm_nerd on Friday October 06, 2023 @12:13PM (#37792663)
This is especially true when you are beholden to a single supplier, with basically no competitive options.

Right now nvidia completely owns the AI market, and is exploiting that absolute monopoly with ever escalating pricing, licensing and restrictive usage models. Everyone keeps trying to escape this -- see Tesla and their super-hyped and now apparently abandoned Dojo thing, while they put in their orders for tens of thousands of H100s -- but instead they keep being beholden to nvidia.

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