@TheAhmadOsman: The future of inference isn’t necessarily in any of the current hardware providers btw No disrespect to the incumbents,…
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A tweet suggests that future AI inference hardware may not come from current providers like NVIDIA, highlighting acquisitions of startups such as Groq because GPUs are not optimally designed for inference.
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The future of inference isn’t necessarily in any of the current hardware providers btw
No disrespect to the incumbents, but there’s a reason NVIDIA acquired Groq and will continue to acquire (and integrate) any promising chip startup
GPUs aren’t optimally designed for inference
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