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Alessio Fanelli: belief

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

“I think you, right now the math was that for the price of the most expensive thing we build, which is the International Space Station, we could build one Tampa of.”

— Alessio Fanelli

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Speaker
Alessio Fanelli
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
20 Jun 2023
Publisher
Latent Space

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…Well, it's a lot cheaper now. So like I said, Kama spent about half a million on our person and a half, so. What are some of the numbers people should think of when they compare compute to like people? So GPT-4 was 100 person years of training. That's more like on the timescale. 20 petaflops is one person. I think you, right now the math was that for the price of the most expensive thing we build, which is the International Space Station, we could build one Tampa of. Yeah, yeah, one Tampa of compute. Yeah, which is the ultimate currency of measurement.…

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