Prediction: google cloud will pivot to being a hyperscaler versus a model + hyperscaler. Kind of like how xAI started hosting anthropic workloads with colossus cluster.

bc the alpha is not the model, the alpha is having the physical infra (chips, power, etc).

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paxy 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A company is allowed to do two things

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hackernudes 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But x.ai also hosts Grok? Why would google stop developing their own models? I think you're right that Google will try to make money from their infrastructure (that's basically what Google Cloud is too).

	▲	ReptileMan 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As much as I like Elon, if Grok was a hero shooter its concurrent steam player count will be in low hundreds.

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cma 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Kind of like how xAI started hosting anthropic workloads with colossus cluster.

Google has been hosting part of Anthropic's load long before that deal. They had a big degradation due to compiler bug for TPUs in an optimization they made to work around TPUs not being able sample from the logits efficiently.

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barumrho 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Is that a long term prediction? Are you saying that physical infra will always lag demand from here on?