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Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter (www.theregister.com)
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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

The gargantuan computational cost of running the machine learning processing that is now required for protein folding and molecular docking is not.

Sure but do you need the absolute gargantuan capacity that is being built right now for that? if so, for how long and at what cost?

The point is not that GPU per se are of little value... the point is that what would you do with 10,000 rocket ships if you only have 1000 projects that may be able to use them? and what can those projects actually pay? can they cover the cost of the 10,000 rockets you built?