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Microsoft, Apple, and Nvidia will reportedly bail out OpenAI from bankruptcy

by cglong on 8/30/24, 8:39 PM with 4 comments

• by Jyaif on 8/30/24, 9:03 PM

  A company losing money hand over fist (if the reports are to be believed), investors dumping more and more money into it (again, if the reports are to be believed), and an enormous valuation: WeWork vibes!

• by razodactyl on 8/30/24, 8:54 PM

  The economics of AI training, research and inference is frustrating across the board.

  The time alone to train my own local experiments is just one aspect of many.

  It makes more sense to train models on clusters and perform research / data acquisition in private, then allow for inference at the edge or licensing on external infrastructure.

  It seems at this point OpenAI are too big to fail.