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Built Kama.

20 Jun 2023 Latent Space Commoditizing the Petaflop — with George Hotz of the tiny corp

“I'm going to build a box for Kama and then I'm going to show off the box I built for Kama and be like, okay, like, do you want to build?”

— George Hotz

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George Hotz
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Recorded
20 Jun 2023
Publisher
Latent Space

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…A person being 20 petaflops. A person is 20 petaflops. It's about 30 petaflops. We built out a little compute cluster and, you know, we paid double what you theoretically could per flop, right? You theoretically could pay half per flop if you designed a bunch of custom stuff. And yeah, I mean, I could see that being, you know, a tiny corp. Kama's going to be the first customer. I'm going to build a box for Kama and then I'm going to show off the box I built for Kama and be like, okay, like, do you want to build? I sell $250,000 training computers. Or how much is one H100 box? It's 400 grand?…

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