My comment is about how this man is seriously entertaining a 2B$ valuation for this napkin math, with no experience in the 4/5 different industries his plan entails – and sharing no definite plans of what to do with it except "be able to train GPT4 in a day". It is about prevailing market forces in VC that let him believe this plan might actually work.
It doesn't have anything to do with crypto, science, or Real World Problems.
As I keep mentioning on HN.
AI is real results + hype as opposed to crypto of only hype.
A computer of this size will be immensely useful for training Vision models very quickly, as well as other kinds of models.
Why only AI? Any branch of Science (all of them) that benefit from fast, parallel compute, will benefit from this.
It is extremely narrow view to view AI only as LLMs.
When I say "real use" I mean solving real world problems that existed before AI. And I don't even count generative AI of any shape or form.