Alibaba Cloud claims to reduce Nvidia GPU use by 82%

Re:Alibaba Cloud claims to reduce Nvidia GPU use by 82% by Cyph0n on Monday October 20, 2025 @06:18PM (#45650139)

But I just pointed out that China is an exception? Also, China had access to human capital at a scale that no African country had.

Japan pre-45 was a world power, and had industrialized by the early 1900s. WW2 was a mere setback.

Korea is more of a “miracle” than Japan was, but they also did well to industrialize ASAP. They also didn’t face the brunt of European colonialism.

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Re:Alibaba Cloud claims to reduce Nvidia GPU use by 82% by shakow on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @04:18AM (#45653632)

> They also didn’t face the brunt of European colonialism.

But they faced the brunt of Chinese & Japanese colonialism, and a full-blown civil war after which their GDP per capita was in the same ballpark as Kenya's.

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Re:Alibaba Cloud claims to reduce Nvidia GPU use by 82% by Cyph0n on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @06:51PM (#45662732)

Yes, they did well given the odds.

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Re:Alibaba Cloud claims to reduce Nvidia GPU use by 82% by wagwang on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @12:06PM (#45657495)

Lots of miracles and exceptions in a working theory

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Re:Alibaba Cloud claims to reduce Nvidia GPU use by 82% by Cyph0n on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @05:57PM (#45662245)

Lots? There are 100 or so countries between Asia and Africa. And we are talking about a handful of East Asian countries.

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Re:Alibaba Cloud claims to reduce Nvidia GPU use by 82% by wagwang on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @10:13PM (#45664197)

I wonder if there are some other factors here considering the geographical clustering.

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