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by MangoToupe 203 days ago
On the flipside, LLMs are so inconsistent you might argue ECC is a complete waste of money. But Open Ai wasting money is hardly anything new.
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Using digital chips instead of some novel analog approach is even greater waste.

> China's AI Analog Chip Claimed to Be 3000X Faster Than Nvidia's A100 GPU (04.11.2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38144619

> Q.ANT’s photonic chips – which compute using light instead of electricity – promise to deliver a 30-fold increase in energy efficiency and a 50-fold boost in computing speed, offering transformative potential for AI-driven data centers and HPC environments. (24.02.2025)

https://qant.com/press-releases/q-ant-and-ims-chips-launch-p...