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Re:OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon by nujabe on Thursday May 21, 2026 @01:58AM (#48218468)
Isn’t knowing how to scale and optimize llm traffic the main barrier ?
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Re:OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon by wg0 on Thursday May 21, 2026 @02:19AM (#48218610)
That's just a "more hardware" problem.
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Re:OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon by ramon156 on Thursday May 21, 2026 @04:38AM (#48219570)
Right, and who has more hardware?
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Re:OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon by amanaplanacanal on Thursday May 21, 2026 @05:01AM (#48219743)
Happily, they are building and selling more hardware all the time!
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Re:OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon by wg0 on Thursday May 21, 2026 @05:40AM (#48220055)
China. They make them there. Huawei is catching up too.
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Re:OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon by amelius on Thursday May 21, 2026 @05:12AM (#48219834)
Yes, OpenAI bought all the DRAM.
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Re:OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon by 0xDEAFBEAD on Thursday May 21, 2026 @05:58AM (#48220169)
I'll bet Deepseekv4 could answer any questions you had related to that. How much of a moat will it prove to be in the long run? "Scale and optimize" sounds like a commodity business.
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