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If OpenAI actually pulls this off and builds billions of GPUs, every single human on Earth would basically have access to their own GPU. That’s the vision of Universal Basic Compute Sam Altman has been hinting at, compute as abundant and accessible as electricity. Not just AI for the... show more

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