Readit NewsSo now NVIDIA has a whole bunch of cloud infrastructure hosted by the usual suspects that they can use for the same type of business the usual suspects do.
well played tbh
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(Not a browser!) about origin)Just feels like a lot of coping from people that don't want to let go of our concept of "intelligence superiority" or w/e you want to call it.
The end game of this will be them wild-eyed in front of a string-crossed cork board, claiming they've found the one thing human brains can do that AI can't, so it's not thinking it's just x,y,z.
Google also does not depend on NVIDIA, thx to TPUs. Rents NVIDIA GPUs to external customers - sure, it's a nice side business, but internally TPUs are king and there's no dependency on NVIDIA for that.
Nassim Taleb would argue the polar opposite of this.
I like the article. Starting to make assertions about benefits seems premature.