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OPENAI directional thesis

ChatGPT's maker is stuck paying others for compute, making it the costliest producer of answers, and that is why it hit a code red on a 1.4 trillion dollar bill.

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“OpenAI's issue that they're trying to solve with Stargate is because they pay a margin to people for compute. Maybe the people who run their compute are not the best at running GPUs. They're a high-cost producer of tokens.”
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