[satya71]

I doubt they're paying retail prices like the tweet implies. Still can't be a small number if that is true.

[dist-epoch]

If there is a discount, it will be tiny:

> “We’re so short on GPUs the less people use our products the better… We’d love it if they use it less because we don’t have enough GPUs” — Sam Altman

> Meta who has the 2nd most H100 GPUs in the world is increasingly leveraging GPU supply as a recruiting strategy.

https://www.datagravity.dev/p/2023-year-in-review-the-great-...

[yuvalsteuer]

EXACTLY! what I was assuming.

[samspenc]

Looks like it retails for $30K, I won't be surprised if the $20K is the bulk price they are paying, so the numbers could be correct.

Though as a wise man [1] once said: "The more you buy, the more you save".

[1] Jensen Huang, NVidia's CEO, says this quite often at conferences, its become a meme at this point, one example https://twitter.com/NVIDIAAI/status/917681161391841280