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Yeah, I guess if you have a datacenter that costs $100B, even hiring a humble CUDA assembly wizard that can optimize your code to run 10% faster is worth $10B to the company.


10% is an enormous amount. Let’s say 1%.

Even if it’s 1% at the scale you’re talking that’s 1B to the company. So still worth it.

Wild.


Yeah but then you factor in the costs of building and running the machines vs the revenue and realize they are actually burning money for the blind hope of major breakthroughs in cognitive understanding that could be centuries away.




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