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Re:xAI joins SpaceX by KoolKat23 on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @11:55AM (#46873573)
Latency means this still makes no sense to me. Perhaps some batch background processing job such as research or something but that's stretching.
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Re:xAI joins SpaceX by mike_hearn on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @03:57AM (#46883317)
I think the most providers all give high latency batch APIs significant discounts. A lot of AI workloads feel batch-oriented to me, or could be once they move beyond the prototype and testing phases. Chat will end up being a small fraction of load in the long term.
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Re:xAI joins SpaceX by KoolKat23 on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @06:22PM (#46893372)
That would imply there's still capacity here on earth for this type of traffic.
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