[tiniuclx]

It boggles the mind what OpenAI could possibly do with all this money.

[jordanb]

Turn electricity into heat.

[Ekaros]

Not to forget buy really expensive sand...

[marshall2x]

And plenty of warm water

[ratg13]

They want to build several 5 GW data centers. (equivalent to the power consumption of a major city)

$8.3B is not even close to enough in order to get to what they are thinking.

[rasz]

Pay current expenses for about two and a half months.

[criley2]

I mean, they can burn it all up in a fire in a few months. xAI loses $1 billion per month, so this round would be an 8 month runway for that company. OpenAI loses $2 for every $1 it brings in, but perhaps they're only losing $500M/mo, so maybe this $8b could last them more than a year...

[andsoitis]

> xAI loses $1 billion per month

Isn’t the vast majority of that capex?

[rasz]

Paying Oracle monthly bills is not capex.

[andsoitis]

It was recently reported by Reuters:

XAI is training Grok on 230,000 graphics processing units, including Nvidia's 30,000 GB200 AI chips, in a supercluster, with inference handled by the cloud providers, Musk said in a post on X on Tuesday. He added that another supercluster will soon launch with an initial batch of 550,000 GB200 and GB300 chips.

I suppose one could argue this training isnt capex, but I was also under the impression that xAI was building sites for housing their AI.

[lanthissa]

hire like 8 people?

[bobsmooth]

Give it to Nvidia.

[pokstad]

Put millions of people out of work

[rvz]

The true definition of AGI.