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akomtuyesterday at 9:57 PM1 replyview on HN

Our brains run 86 billion neurons the same way a waterfall runs a fluid simulation with N quadrillion particles.


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VorpalWayyesterday at 10:56 PM

There are already some companies doing specialised inference hardware, Cerebras Systems for example. Such designs are still early days and I wouldn't be surprised to see more innovation there. Though because custom silicon design takes time I expect a multi-year cycle.

For training, not sure. But even if training runs on GPUs, once you have the model the main cost is inference.