Forbes October 11, 2024
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Last week, OpenAI announced that it had raised $6.6 billion in new investments. But despite this staggering amount of money, The Information reported that the company expects to spend up to $9.5 billion annually in computing costs over the next few years to train new models for research.
A big part of this expense has to do with the underlying architecture of computers, which keeps memory and processing in separate parts of a chip, requiring a constant shuffling of data between those two parts. When it comes to AI models that...