they closed a $120bn funding round last week... i think i feel about the same as you towards openai, but come on.
If there are strings attached, such as "will be able to navigate red tape to get X number of DC sites approved", then the number depends on OpenAI's ability to execute.
I can't even understand what this post is trying to say, considering OpenAI raised a giant new funding round mere weeks ago.
Elon Musk?!
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Edit: I suppose I'd better add that yes, the rules here are the same regardless of whom you're talking about. We don't want this kind of fulmination on HN because it degrades discussion quality and evokes worse from others.
If we assume they are trying to rapidly free up compute then the UK is a pretty stupid place to be building out new datacenters... Any project here overruns both in time and budget – if it even goes ahead at all.
Then you have energy costs which makes the UK one of the most expensive places in the world to build a datacenter. If you want to bring compute online fast and at a competitive price, then you're far better off building somewhere else in Europe like Norway.
UK been a mess enegy wise for a while as we rushed towards netzero when we should of been more tortise, that saw the UK see where we were and where we wanted to be and go in a straight line like a roman road,but no concept of bridges or tunnels, that made the direction more bumpy than it could have been and far less impacting overall. There again, good example would be the mad rush done when they rushed to replace incadecent bulbs under Regulation EC 244/2009 with CFC bulbs chucked endless money to pat themselves on the back with LED taking over a few years later, sending those rushed replacement to landfill - which of note, if you broke one, you literly have to evac your house and air for a while due to the mecury in them. As I said, many good intentions are rushed like a hare when we all know the tortise wins the race.
I think Sam is somewhat sociopathic, smooth salesman, not very technical, will say whatever needs to be said to get what he wants.
Elon is on the spectrum and has bad social judgement and is just immature in a lot of ways, is very direct and means what he says when he says it, even if it's often unrealistic or misguided. Is extremely technical, and honestly I think has better intentions, just gets in his own way a lot.
Dario is an odd duck but seems stable and good intentions, very technical (I think?).
Hasib, wow what a normal, likable guy, extremely technical.
Zuckerberg seems to finally be entering the chat in terms of big AI models.
I think Altman scares me the most, in terms of having control of this tech. Hasib probably seems the best to control it. Just in terms of if I had to pick one.
How does having an AI heat farm in the UK help with that? It's still owned and controlled by a US entity. Or is "being a leader" synonymous with "being a customer?"
"Our 4-person team's AI bill this month was $100K and I've never been more proud of an invoice"
"If your $250K a year engineers aren't spending $250K a year in tokens, you aren't getting your money's worth"
"If you aren't using at least $500 of tokens a day, it's time for a performance improvement plan"
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