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The $1 Billion And Higher Ante To Play The AI Game

July 5, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

If you want to get the attention of server makers and compute engine providers and especially if you are going to be building GPU-laden clusters with shiny new gear to drive AI training and possibly AI inference for large language models and recommendation engines, the first thing you need is $1 billion. …

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