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Renting his boatload of GPUs to Google, Anthropic, et al

[cyberax]

He doesn't have _that_ many. And they're also not _his_, he just got them from NVidia.

[fragmede]

You don't have to like the guy, but buying something is typically how ownership goes. I refer to my car as mine, but I did just buy it from Honda.

[cyberax]

I mean that it's not his IP, he's not producing any GPUs/TPUs. He's just reselling his idle stock of cards.

[sourweasel]

Not to be pedantic, but although the datacenters are running Nvidia hardware, Tesla did develop their own 20-core/3-npu high bandwidth chip for their cars. It's nowhere near the computational ability of any datacenter GPU, but at 150+ TOPS it's no slouch either.

[wombat-man]

I read that they bought quite a few, but their DC build out is not very fast. Maybe they should just resell the hardware