Re:Nvidia hits $3T market cap on back of AI boom
by hiddencost on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @04:19PM
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Yes. For the last 20 years. Many of the largest applications aren't ones you're aware of or ever see directly. Most of Google's revenue, to pick one example. For every flashy start-up or cool open source project, there is an army of people quietly delivering 10% relative improvements that drive $100M revenue lift in their particular niche at a huge company.
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Re:Nvidia hits $3T market cap on back of AI boom
by riku_iki on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @04:38PM
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> Most of Google's revenue, to pick one example. For every flashy start-up or cool open source project, there is an army of people quietly delivering 10% relative improvements that drive $100M revenue lift in their particular niche at a huge company.
this is true for previous generations of deep learning but still not clear for current GenAI wave.
Re:Nvidia hits $3T market cap on back of AI boom
by Ologn on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @04:31PM
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Right. In 2011 Jeff Dean ran into Andrew Ng in the Google cafeteria, which AFAIK is where a lot of the modern Google AI started happening. AlexNet won the ImageNet challenge in 2012 (which HN was not impressed with at all at the time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4611830 ). Attention is All You Need was published in 2017. A lot of behind the scenes, invite-only etc. stuff has been happening for years, and only in the past two years do we see DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, ChatGPT, Gemini, Sora etc.