Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training

Re:Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM trai... by SOLAR_FIELDS on Monday May 25, 2026 @11:11PM (#48274549)

It's also a bit funny because Norway definitely has enough money to hire a team of Anthropic's best to go out there and train them a model that does whatever they want. They probably have enough money to fund their own Anthropic competitor.

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Re:Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM trai... by joe_mamba on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @01:55AM (#48275550)

>They probably have enough money to fund their own Anthropic competitor.

Which is bizarre to me Norway doesn't have a booming tech sector with all hat wealth fund acting as the biggest VC.

They instead use their wealth fund to invest in US's tech sector. Baffling.

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Re:Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM trai... by kalli on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @02:57AM (#48276069)

The point of the fund is to invest outside of Norway so as to avoid the Norwegian economy overheating and increasing inflation

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Re:Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM trai... by NorwegianDude on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:16AM (#48276224)

Considering the fact that the US is complaining about Norway putting too much money into the US market, imagine what would happen if all that money was spent in Norway. It would be chaos.

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Re:Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM trai... by joe_mamba on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:42AM (#48276414)

> imagine what would happen if all that money was spent in Norway.

It would create jobs, sovereignty, intellectual property and soft power?

Instead it goes to strengthening the tech monopoly of a country that threatens to invade your neighbour.

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Re:Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM trai... by varjag on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @04:56AM (#48277015)

It was tried in early 1980s and nearly drove any non oil-related industry in the country extinct.

Norway has a manpower bottleneck. The UK had spent its oil windfall domestically and it barely registered. But for a nation of then some 4 million the economy melts down with so much monetary mass.

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Re:Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM trai... by schubidubiduba on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @02:28AM (#48275808)

There's only so much you can do with 5 million people. Especially in a field where network effects amd scale matter a lot.

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Re:Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM trai... by joe_mamba on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @02:30AM (#48275824)

Finland has same population as Norway, has way less money, but has 3x the scaleups. Even bigger difference with vs Netherlands.

Even Norway themselves admit they're the underperformers of the Nordics. https://skywlkr.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/TechScaleupNor...

So blaming population is a cheap excuse that doesn't hold water. Especially that you can always import the skilled people you lack, when you have virtually unlimited money and some of the highest standards of living in the world.

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Re:Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM trai... by fastasucan on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @03:19PM (#48299136)

The fund is specifically mandated to not invest inside Norway to avoid making an enormous bubble and sky high inflation.

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Re:Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM trai... by schubidubiduba on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @02:30AM (#48275822)

I highly doubt that hiring people who don't even speak the language would result in a better model for Norwegian. If anything, they could pay Anthropic for some tips and tricks for training. But that does not seem necessary as Deepseek & co detail everything for free

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