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		vonneumannstan 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start supe... Of course the actual shovels are GPUs in this case... so it makes your analogy even stranger.

JumpCrisscross 8 months ago | [–]

> the actual shovels are GPUs in this case

This deal brings into focus whether the shovels are data or GPUs. Advantage to data comes, surprisingly, in perishability: a GPU fleet remains cutting edge for only one product cycle.

CamperBob2 8 months ago | [–]

In the gold-rush metaphor, the data is the cyanide and dynamite.

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