Altman seeks to raise billions for network of AI chip factories

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-19/altman-seeks-to-raise-billions-for-network-of-ai-chip-factories

by marban • 3 years ago

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gumballindie• 3 years ago

Cant steal chips sadly. He must be bummed.

djmips• 3 years ago

can't you?

rvnx• 3 years ago

Well that's one of the reason for the chaos few months ago. The board considered that this fundraise for his own company was interfering with his CEO role.

lazzlazzlazz• 3 years ago

His fundraising for his other companies is widely known and has been happening consistently for years.

jakderrida• 3 years ago

Well wait a minute...I don't think it would be competing with them in the end and I can't see him overcharging OpenAI, of all companies, for the use of this product. I honestly feel like this appears a genuine effort to help the interests of OpenAI and can't really find any conflicts or cause for this particular endeavor to engender dishonesty from him.

martin_• 3 years ago

https://archive.md/1Fa75

schizofunky• 3 years ago

brah, just buy from cerebras. (x.x)``

petra• 3 years ago

Building an advanced chip fab was much harder than just getting the money.

So something isn't very clear about this story.

londons_explore• 3 years ago

I have a feeling they might not actually need the latest fab tech.

What matters is FLOPS/dollar (production cost) and FLOPS/kilowatt (energy use of resulting chips).

If you can use an older tech fab to get production cost down enough, it might be worth living with bigger transistors that use a little more energy.

AI stuff is massively parallel, unlike most other tech stuff, so they don't actually need super low latency and high clock speeds.

Altman seeks to raise billions for network of AI chip factories

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