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OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Honestly, I can say I don't really get it either. I would only use the open source models anyway, but it just seems rather silly from what I can tell.
I feel like the last few months have been an inflection point, at least for me. Qwen 2.5, and the new Command-R, really make a 24GB GPU feel "dumb, but smart," useful enough so I pretty much always keep Qwen 32B loaded on the desktop for its sheer utility.
It's still in the realm of enthusiast hardware (aka a used 3090), but hopefully that's about to be shaken up with bitnet and some stuff from AMD/Intel.
Altman is literally a vampire though, and thankfully I think he's going to burn OpenAI to the ground.
What do you think about the possibility of decentralized AI through blockchain so that you could pay some tokens or something like that to rent the GPUs to run your AI for as long as you wish to instead of having to buy all the hardware and assemble it yourself?
I cannot tell if you are being serious or just having fun with buzzwords
I stopped at block chain
Oh, I'm being completely serious. I've been interested in crypto since about 2013.
There is no need to use Blockchain for this. Computing pools like this have been used for ages
crypto fizzled years ago without a major use case. source: check google trend history.
bitcoin wouldn't be useful for tracking the rental of cpu/gpu assets.
Yeah, no Bitcoin would be the wrong chain for that. But there are other chains that would work better for such a use case.
how do you suppose?
Bitcoin is really too slow and too expensive for automated tasks like that. There are other chains such as Solana, etc that are much faster and much cheaper that would work better for that kind of use case.
The solution to all the world's computing issues is not "blockchain."