alt Hacker NewsNo, of course the training costs aren't that high. Apple's ten years of future free cash flow is greater than a trillion dollars (they are above $100b per year). Obviously, the training costs are a trivial amount compared to that figure.
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bombcar • yesterday at 6:54 PM
I have no idea what AI involves, but "training" sounds like a one-and-done - but how is the result "stored"? If you have trained up a Gemini, can you "clone" it and if so, what is needed?
I was under the impression that all these GPUs and such were needed to run the AI, not only ingest the data.
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amelius • yesterday at 8:02 PM
Hiring the right people should also be trivial with that amount of cash.
What I'm wondering - their future cash flow may be massive compared to any conceivable rational task, but the market for servers and datacenters seems to be pretty saturated right now. Maybe, for all their available capital, they just can't get sufficient compute and storage on a reasonable schedule.