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Darlington Akogo

@darlingtinho

In search of Raftel. Founder & CEO @minoHealth AI Labs, @karaAgro AI & @RunmilaInstitut. Building real world AI & AGI4Health, doing AI research & AI policy.

Accra, Ghana Katılım Ocak 2012
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Darlington Akogo@darlingtinho·
This automatically makes it into top 5 moments in life so far 🔥🔥 I met and had dinner with Bill Gates in his house! WILD!! This was a ~4 hours long dinner that entailed detailed discussions on AI/LLMs for Global Health, our multimodal LLM project at @minoHealth AI Labs.
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Darlington Akogo@darlingtinho·
Definitely not defending OpenAI or Sam, but if Elon truly believes OpenAI should be a non-profit and open source, why build another AI lab - xAI and make it for-profit and closed source? Why aren’t Grok models open source and free to use? Glaring hypocrisy and disengenuity
Elon Musk@elonmusk

Scam Altman … x.com/i/grok/share/4…

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Darlington Akogo@darlingtinho·
@Mike_Amanpene Very much so, he masks his ego and greed with some false presentation of a selfless act to save humanity from some big bad, and his fan base eats it up. The honest truth is he’s just jealous Sam and OpenAI are getting attention after he quitted and left.
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Mike Amanpene@Mike_Amanpene·
@darlingtinho He really enjoys mind games, leveraging his fan boys and girls, and now the president of the USA to do his bidding.
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Darlington Akogo@darlingtinho·
All we need is one promising AGI lab to emerge - which would get most of its financing from the global market - and it’d trigger a few more and put us in the AGI race.
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Darlington Akogo@darlingtinho·
At one point, it was unipolar, China only became a contender with DeepSeek last year, which was followed by 1-2 actors.
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Darlington Akogo@darlingtinho·
Because it’d be extremely costly (politically, economically) to live in a bipolar AGI world - genuinely one of my biggest fears, and there’s a first movers advantage with AGI.
Akwasi Appiah@Kwasi_Appiah_Jr

@darlingtinho @Wofa_Jeffrey @minoHealth What was the strategic logic for positioning Ghana toward the frontier group rather than focusing on readiness for the capabilities that will diffuse as costs fall?

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Darlington Akogo@darlingtinho·
MTN is spending $1.1B on AI infrastructure in Ghana, that increases our total compute and isn’t being financed from the National AI Fund. The strategy mentions incentivizing hyperscalers & neoclouds to build their commercial data centers in Ghana. All this leads to the increase.
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Darlington Akogo@darlingtinho·
Good question. National AI Fund is proposed to be a GHS20B across the 10 duration. That’s supposed to be a direct national AI Fund. On the other hand, the 10²¹ FLOPS is the total compute capacity expansion of Ghana and does not require explicit government financing.
Akwasi Appiah@Kwasi_Appiah_Jr

@darlingtinho @Wofa_Jeffrey @minoHealth Reading the AI Strategy, the misalignment between the ambitions and the announced finance is hard to miss. National AI Fund: 5B Cedis (~$420M USD) for 2025-30. The 10^21 FLOPS compute target alone needs billions of USD in hardware at current prices.

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JeffreyA@Wofa_Jeffrey·
@darlingtinho @Kwasi_Appiah_Jr @minoHealth Man, it’s very impressive how you answer the questions on the AI strategy. Very refreshing how you don’t answer the questions with a know-it-all tone. You have my respect
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Darlington Akogo@darlingtinho·
@BismarckBamfo You’re right, it did mess up the conversion from TFLOPS to PFLOPS. Checked Nvidia’s numbers. Even if Rubin is 3X - $3B, that’s still much doable across government & private sector. MTN alone has plans to spend 1.1 billion on their data center project - cioafrica.co/mtn-ghana-to-i…
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Bismarck Odoom@BismarckBamfo·
An NVIDIA 8×H100 SXM server has ~32×10¹⁵ FLOP/s fp8 peak. A single H100 has ~3.958×10¹⁵ FLOP/s. The 3.958 x 10¹² FLOP/s in your image is incorrect(it should be 3,958 x 10¹² FLOP/s). Your AI is incorrect by 1000x
Darlington Akogo@darlingtinho

That’s because you used H100s, which would actually be more about 3 OOMs more expensive than the calculation you did. But if you switch to B200/GB200, for the same FLOPs, it translates to ~2.8 billion. If you switch to Rubin, it translates to ~1 billion. Very realistic.

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Darlington Akogo@darlingtinho·
@Huey_Brabus Thanks, many still underestimate AGI getting here soon and its implications! But as a country, we shouldn’t!
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Darlington Akogo@darlingtinho·
In addition to government’s data center plans, I know a number private actors building or expanding their data centers, MTN is one of them. In the AI world, that OOM scale up is basically a single top AI lab’s build out. It’s ambitious, but certainly doable!
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