The $1 Billion And Higher Ante To Play The AI Game
The Next Platform, Wednesday, July 5,2023
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. After that, things will be easier for you when it comes to building out your next platform.
If you don't have $1 billion, then you will be fighting to beg, borrow, and steal rent capacity on older GPU systems that can run AI workloads reasonably well and waiting for your turn to get access to capacity for newer and more powerful GPUs on the clouds or for your order to be fulfilled from an ODM or OEM, which will probably take longer than you are used to.