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by datadrivenangel 482 days ago
1. Different silicon / different physical computer bits that don't do the right operations. 2. Cryptomining tends to be massively parallelizable (network friendly), while most AI training ends up being bandwidth limited, and so there are more benefits to larger single nodes.

But also a lot of general purpose graphics cards that work for crypto are also decent at AI!