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AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom (www.thenationalnews.com)
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[–] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (6 children)

Good luck with that!

We are already seeing some take their foot off the gas. They need to slam on the brakes and get spend to manageable levels.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    They are pretending to hit the brakes because their products couldn't meet their own hype. Now they sit back and wait to pay off the president personally for their next round of bail outs.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Inference seems profitable and scalable enough, given time... The real cost seems to be in growth and training future models. Ergo, a slowdown can only improve the financial position of OpenAI and Anthropic (which don't seem stellar just now).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    My theory is they want to get to AGI first because of the perceived payoff.

    It's like flooring it down the freeway, not knowing how far away your destination is, whether it even exists or is on this road at all, or even if it will enslave/kill you when you get there.

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