The generative AI boom is compute-bound. It has the unique property that adding more compute directly results in a better product. Usually, R&D investment is more directly tied to how valuable a product was, and that relationship is markedly sublinear. But this is not currently so with artificial intelligence and, as a result, a predominant factor driving the industry today is simply the cost of training and inference.
While we don’t know the true…
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