Re:OpenAI is exploring making its own AI chips and evaluates...
by llm_nerd on Friday October 06, 2023 @12:13PM
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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.
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.