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dofmtoday at 5:51 PM1 replyview on HN

And yet this doesn't turn out to be Meta's problem at all.

https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/165970/meta-exploring-option-to-sell...

Meta bought too many GPUs, has spare GPU capacity and they are exploring renting that capacity out.

The problem is not that the models need too much to do the job. If that were the case, Meta would not have spare capacity.

The problem is that the models currently can't be made to do the job.


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laweijfmvotoday at 6:00 PM

I think Meta’s massive compute investment was never about its 100,000 engineers running coding models, but its 3,500,000,000 users wanting to use AI in every single product (and some new ones: Meta AI, glasses, etc.) So I would think that’s the part that’s not being utilized anywhere near the amount they hoped...

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