[HN Gopher] Microsoft inks deal with CoreWeave to meet OpenAI cl...
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       Microsoft inks deal with CoreWeave to meet OpenAI cloud demand
        
       Author : mfiguiere
       Score  : 37 points
       Date   : 2023-06-01 18:09 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | witchesindublin wrote:
       | Would you say that Nvidia's role in AI is based off software or
       | hardware?
        
         | fragmede wrote:
         | Just like a car needs both an engine and tires, software and
         | hardware are equally critical to success. Something that AMD
         | just does not get.
        
         | Dalewyn wrote:
         | Yes.
        
         | mlazos wrote:
         | Software, there are 100s of ai hardware startups. It's easier
         | relatively to build a domain specific chip, but building a
         | compiler stack that integrates with a major framework and gets
         | good perf from your chip is incredibly difficult. Getting
         | people to switch from nvidia? Even harder
        
         | haldujai wrote:
         | Today? Both.
        
       | paxys wrote:
       | Remember when Nvidia used to be a gaming company? Now I wouldn't
       | be surprised if they quit that market entirely.
        
         | tcbyrd wrote:
         | https://www.pcworld.com/article/1935511/jensen-says-nvidia-s...
        
       | dpflan wrote:
       | Is there any reality to crypto-mining gpu operations converting
       | to AI model services (assuming they have the correct hardware)?
       | Where can more GPUs be found and aggregated?
        
         | my123 wrote:
         | > Is there any reality to crypto-mining gpu operations
         | converting to AI model services (assuming they have the correct
         | hardware)?
         | 
         | Yes. Coreweave was an Ethereum mining operation that
         | reconverted into this.
        
           | dpflan wrote:
           | Thank you.
        
       | chx wrote:
       | > demonstrating that AI can take human input and produce
       | sophisticated responses
       | 
       | sophisticated _looking broken plagiarism_
       | 
       | FTFY
        
       | herr_antwort wrote:
       | Coreweave intially loaded up on GPUs to mine Ethereum, made money
       | off that during the boom, then pivoted to being a GPU cloud, and
       | found themselves with all these GPUs in the ML/AI bubble. Amazing
       | run.
        
         | bushbaba wrote:
         | Mining used consumer GPUs which are not allowed to be used for
         | datacenters. So I doubt they managed to reuse the hardware
        
           | sorcer wrote:
           | No mining GPUs are in their fleet anymore, that's long gone.
           | It's all datacenter GPUs as per their website.
        
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