How come there’s ASICs for mining but not AI? Seems like there would be almost unlimited demand

Infiniti20 • today at 4:33 AM • 4 replies • view on HN

tcoff91 • today at 4:48 AM

There is. It does 16k tokens per second. https://chatjimmy.ai/

mook • today at 4:45 AM

Weren't the Google TPU stuff that already? Wikipedia says that's from a decade ago.

kcb • today at 4:48 AM

Mining is all compute and no IO. Training particularly is heavy compute and insane IO.

elromulous • today at 4:45 AM

There are asics for ai. They're called gpus / tpus.

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