in hindsight, this was chump change
Microsoft and OpenAI plan a $100 billion AI supercomputer code-named Stargate to power frontier models
The partners were highly sensitive about disclosing the budget.
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Users question the sustainability of Microsoft and OpenAI's planned $100B Stargate AI supercomputer, citing rapid budget growth from $100B to $500B as evidence of unsustainable hype.
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Jessica Lessin@Jessicalessin
@GaryMarcus Totally - and to think how sensitive they were about the number
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Strata@ChainZenit
@GaryMarcus Classic cycle behavior, we’ve all been there.
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Newtee@Newtlx
@GaryMarcus The scale keeps shifting faster than anyone predicted
what looked like major commitments last year barely registers now
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とーい@toyboy_9a0
@GaryMarcus $100B → $500B in under a year. The only thing scaling reliably is the budget. When does the bubble pop?
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