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They'd have to pull a rabbit out of a hat to make it work, and their investments are not what you'd need to do that. For a mere fraction of the cost of all these datacenter shaped money pits they could build world class research labs that would put the old bell labs to shame, but they.....aren't
Knowing Bell Labs' contributions... this is fucking radicalizing.
Think of what would happen if you could pay the world's smartest people in all fields of study $1 million a year salary to work on AI and AI adjacent research? That's a rounding error at this scale