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recursivecaveat 3 days ago

It's not like you can just stamp out a giant grid of flops and just go brrr. Getting utilization is difficult, and the closer you hew to Nvidia's tradeoffs the more you are going to come out unfavorably against a giant who's working with 10,000X your volume and decades of experience. Nvidia proprietary software is very highly embedded into everyone's stacks. The models undergo co-evolution with the hardware, so they are designed with its capabilities in mind.

It's like trying to take on UPS with some new, not quite drop-in logistics network. Theoretically its just a bunch of empty tubs shuffling around, but not so easy in practice. You have to be multiples better than the incumbent to be in contention. Keep in mind for the startups we don't really know who is setting money on fire running models in unprofitable configurations for revenue.