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Sam Altman on why he likes hard problems (like making his own chip) “Philosophically I'm very inclined to try to find the high-leverage, difficult problem that will continue the exponential. And for us this is models and compute. Those are problems that naturally suit me.” “To scale compute in... the way that we're doing requires a complex supply chain. There's a lot of interesting partnerships to figure out, which I like doing. There's interesting financial challenges of how you're going to finance what is rapidly becoming the most expensive infrastructure project in history.” “The technology questions that go into building out compute at this scale from designing your own chip, to the supply chain of fabs and people that make racks, to the power systems for these things. There are a lot of problems that are interesting across technology, business, policy, supply chain, logistics— all come together around building compute at this kind of scale.”show more

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Sam Altman says the AI infrastructure race is not about bigger chatbots. It is about shifting the planet's intellectual output from human brains to AI brains. "If people knew what we could do with compute, they would want way, way more." "The thing I am personally most excited about is to use AI and lots of compute to discover new science." "A recent cool example here is we built the Sora Android app using Codex... in less than a month." "You can imagine that way much further, where entire companies can build their products using lots of compute." Then he gives the scale: "Let's say that an AI company today might be generating something on the order of 10 trillion tokens a day out of frontier models." "We're going to have these models at a company be outputting more tokens per day than all of humanity put together, and then 10 times that, and then 100 times that." The bottleneck is moving from software talent to compute supply, inference speed, product integration, and where all that machine intelligence gets pointed.

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ELON MUSK: "We're starting off with an advanced technology fab here in Austin, and I'd like to thank Greg Abbott and the state of Texas for the support. So in the advanced technology fab, we will have all of the equipment necessary to make a chip of any kind logical memory, and we will also have all of the equipment necessary to make the masks. So in a single building, we can create a mask, make the chip, test the chip, make another mask, and have an incredibly fast recursive loop for improving the chip design. To the best of my knowledge, this doesn't exist anywhere in the world. We're really going to push the limit of physics in compute, and we're going to try a bunch of wild and crazy things, which you can do if you've got that fast iteration loop that I can't emphasize enough the importance of being able to make it, to test it and and then make and then change the design, do another one, and have that in a single building."

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