When I settle down and raise kids, I’ll probably move back to New Mexico. My dream is to be the @rabois of New Mexico. You heard it here first—NM will be the next big tech hub.
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Melonfrost Raises $7M for Microbial Innovation Startup
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Forbes wrote up Melonfrost's $7 million raise — in which Not Boring Capital participated — last week: https://
forbes.com/sites/johncumb
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Crypto AI Art Collection: The CryptoPunks of AI Era
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[ C r y p t o A I A r t ] The "Crypto AI Art" Collection could be the CryptoPunks of the #AIArt era http://
MONTREAL.AI was responsible for creating the domains CryptoAIArt.Eth and .com, as well as the hashtag #CryptoAIArt https://
opensea.io/collection/mon
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CAPEX vs OPEX: AI Infrastructure and Data Spending Economics
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maybe if you compare compute CAPEX vs data OPEX, but if you amortize CAPEX then for major players they are similar orders of magnitude data spend will stay high because while # of hrs goes down, specialization will increase $/hr (and model value) & prod models need validation
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Compute spending will vastly outpace data investment
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do you really think? im pretty sure we will outspend on compute by a _huge_ margin, and at least for companies like openai data spend will go down as models get smarter. curious if i am missing something!
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Quebec AI: Ambitious Project to Lead Global AI by 2030
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http://
QUEBEC.AI "The Most Ambitious Project in Quebec History" QUÉBEC ♡ AI : https://
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Companies Spending Billions on RLHF Training for LLMs
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we're starting to see top companies spend the same amount on RLHF and compute in training ChatGPT-like LLMs for example, OpenAI hired >1000 devs to RLHF their code models crazy—but soon companies will start spending $ hundreds of Ms or $ billions on RLHF, just as w/compute
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Financial Markets as Comedy: Stress Relief Through Market Perspective
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the financial markets become way less stressful when you realize that it's all just a big comedy show.
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Discussion on paper examining total compute costs
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Agreed – did you read the paper? It's pretty specifically looking at total compute costs