@rohanpaul_ai: Jensen Huang on CNBC just identified what could become the 3rd massive pillar of AI compute demand: Giant data centers …
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Jensen Huang identifies a third major area of AI compute demand: giant data centers built specifically to evaluate and safety-test frontier AI models, separate from training and inference.
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Jensen Huang on CNBC just identified what could become the 3rd massive pillar of AI compute demand:
Giant data centers built specifically to evaluate and safety-test frontier models. i.e. this is a separate compute demand segment on top of already required for training and inference.
From “FinVid” YouTube channel, (full video link in comment)
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