OpenAI Wants To Get To $1 Trillion a Year in Infrastructure Spend, Sam Altman Says (axios.com) 52
OpenAI has committed to spend about $1.4 trillion on infrastructure so far, equating to roughly 30 gigawatts of data center capacity, CEO Sam Altman said on Tuesday. From a report: The statement helps clarify the many announcements the company has made with its chip, data center and financing partners. That total includes the already announced deals with AMD, Broadcom, Nvidia, Oracle and other partners. That's just the starting point, Altman said. Over time, the company would like to have in place a technical and financial apparatus that would allow it to build a gigawatt of new capacity per week at a cost of around $20 billion per gigawatt.
In other news (Score:5, Funny)
A million little girls want a pony.
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He's out here legit saying he wants his company to be 3% of the US economy.
This is crazy.
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He wants it to be 100%. There's a job for that AI capacity to do, it's to destroy everything else.
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A million little girls want a pony.
A pony isn't good enough for Altman - he wants a unicorn that farts rainbows, shits chocolate, and pisses lemonade.
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I wanna pony also, don't stereotype!
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A million little girls want a pony.
Oddly enough, buying ponies for those million little girls would cost less around 1% of the proposed annual spend here. You could also buy a backhoe for a million little boys for another couple of percent or so.
Pony? You misspelled Rust. (Score:1)
what is infrastructure spend (Score:4, Interesting)
Is it a noun? A verb?
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Idiot CEO bullshit speak.
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PhbGPT
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Oo, oo, I know, I know! "What is Bill the Cat?" :D
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It's not idiot CEO BS speak if it gives him more money.
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Re:what is infrastructure spend (Score:4, Informative)
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And since when is a gigawatt a measure of data center capacity?
But hey, it's only $20 BILLION a week in spending, just $4 BILLION a day. Nice to be a non-profit.
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What the hell is a Jiggawatt?!
97.94% of the energy required to power a Flux Capacitor fitted to a Delorean going at 88 miles per hour in order for it to leave 1955 and instantly arrive in 1985.
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You left out the part about Marty getting to meet his own mother as a teenager and she started trying to make out with him. Can't leave 1955 without doing THAT first! Kinda the whole point of the movie.
They finna'to (Score:3)
Just let them get their money right and they'll be back. Can you hold on to it for two weeks?
It's gonna be funny (Score:3)
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Hell, I had Eliza running on just one Z-80 processor and it was still better than this hallucinating crap incorrectly called "AI".
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New Business Rules (Score:2)
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Well, to be fair, all these AI companies are currently running on the old adage 'we lose money on every sale, but make it up in volume'.
It doesn't matter how much he spends on infrastructure, at some point he has to charge people more or cut his costs to run these models.
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https://wlockett.medium.com/you-have-no-idea-how-screwed-openai-actually-is-8358dccfca1c
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It doesn't matter how much he spends on infrastructure, at some point he has to charge people more or cut his costs to run these models.
At a trillion dollars a year they'd need to increase the cost by a factor of more than 4 and increase the paid user count to 1/8th of the entire planetary population just to cover capital spending. If you charged corporate America $30k a year for each employee made redundant by AI you would need to replace ~20% of the entire productive US workforce to cover just those costs.
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It's pretty simple: if open AI can spend trillions, it probably has quadrillion. People seems to buying it....
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Which is cuter, your contempt for environmentalism or your blind faith that Sam Altman gives a shit? Keep praying, I'm sure you'll be relieved of the malcontents.
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pricey service (Score:2)
That would be 1.4M users worth $1000 each in a timeframe short enough to make a profit and not find a better investment. They must be counting on that 1.4M users being worth $10000 each or more on a longer time frame. Good luck. You can only sell so many hallucinations.
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That would be 1.4M users worth $1000 each in a timeframe short enough to make a profit and not find a better investment. They must be counting on that 1.4M users being worth $10000 each or more on a longer time frame. Good luck. You can only sell so many hallucinations.
It's actually worse than that... your calculation is off by three orders of magnitude. 1.4B users, not 1.4M.
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Right! Exactly!
This is stupidity (Score:2)
Somebody somewhere is going to reduce energy costs with architecture, reduce power on the hardware end. Software is already so wasteful when it comes to energy and not a lot of optimization because it's hard
Well then, Sam ... (Score:2)
nice spend... how pay? (Score:2)
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that's revenue... what is the profits?
what percentage of profits or expected profits for ROI.
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Profits? Very funny!
Their expenses are much larger than revenue. They're nowhere close to producing a profit. And since they're now committed to spending $1.4 trillion over the next ten years, they need to get to $140 million per year revenue (and do it really fast) just to break even. Increasing their current revenue by 10x wouldn't be enough to do it.
Can you imagine how much better your life would be (Score:4, Interesting)
How much better your roads and water in schools and hell we would could build entire new cities and solve the housing crisis.
Remember it doesn't matter how much your house is worth if you can't sell it and buy a cheaper one. And trust me you do not want to fuck around with home equity loans that's a good way to lose your house and find out what the housing market is currently like.
But instead we are going to spend a trillion dollars automating customer service jobs so billionaires don't have to pay them.
What a fucking hell of a world we've created.
It's okay though because I'm sure after we automate tens of millions of jobs that will suddenly be all these new jobs that I keep hearing about in vague terms. We can go do whatever the buggy whip guys did after they lost their jobs right? We certainly haven't been doing factory automation for 50 years and they're certainly hasn't been any improvements in factory automation. Or maybe it's biotech now? Or learn to code?
I'm sure the jobs will materialize. I mean it's not as if we've got something crazy like the history of two industrial revolutions creating massive technological unemployment leading up to two world wars right?
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On what? (Score:1)
This is getting out of control. (Score:2)
Android please (Score:1)
Financial apparatus? (Score:2)
Altman said that over time, the company would like to have in place a technical and financial apparatus that would allow it to build a gigawatt of new capacity per week at a cost of around $20 billion per gigawatt. If "financial apparatus" means $1 trillion of annual revenue, then that makes sense. So, all he needs is 50% more sales than Walmart or Amazon ... or 7600% percent more than OpenAI right now.