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Re:Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business... by panarky on Friday February 09, 2024 @12:40AM (#39311763)
The scale of this should tell us it's not just about building an alternative to Nvidia.

$7 trillion is like adding TSMC, Intel and AMD together, and multiplying that combination by seven.

This is about sheer capacity, not just circumventing CUDA.

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Re:Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars to Reshape Business... by polishdude20 on Friday February 09, 2024 @02:15AM (#39312275)
Why not just give like a fraction of that to NVidia and tell them "make us more please, we will buy in bulk"?
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