William I. Gibbs IV (Will)

Every LLM is a walled garden in a race to beat the hell out of the next foundational model. They all are hoping it’s not like search with one dominant player. They have to invest like it might be. That won’t change for ???? Every enterprise has to keep up with their changing and new models and decide when to move. When to go side by side. When to delete. That’s going to be stressful. And as long as those models don’t truly integrate, and will that ever happen, the amount of work for enterprises to maintain AI and be competitive is going to keep on growing and getting more expensive. And there will be a time when genAI models will be superseded by world view models and who knows what comes after that It’s going to take so many people specializing in various layers and levels of AI In the next 5 years enterprise AI is going to be a mess, with all the different implementations and flavors and sources and models. It’s not inconceivable there can be hundreds of different models in each big enterprise. Just because the company got overwhelmed trying to keep everything tied together. Which in turn could lead very large companies to choose to divest subsidiaries rather than thinking there is benefit from scale. Scale may be a boat anchor to your business. Purely because of AI Curious what everyone thinks ?

This 100MW data center in UAE is the largest solar powered datacenter in the world. There are currently 1,300 data centers in the world that are bigger than this one, but this one is the largest solar powered one. That’s 10 square kilometres of solar panels you can see. The datacenter itself is 0.02 square kilometres, so a solar powered datacenter is ~500x larger than a data center using any other form of power. A five hundred times larger site. UAE has some of the highest solar irradiance anywhere on Earth, it is an inhospitable desert. Averaging 9.7 hours of sunlight per day with average irradiance above 2,200 kWh/m^2. If you build this somewhere else, you need more solar panels because your irradiance will almost certainly be lower. Even if the world had an infinite supply of free solar panels, solar power will not be free. Anyone who has ever done major capital projects, who looks at where data centers need to be in the next 5 years and the next 10 years… we know it aint solar. Sorry. You struggle to even build a train track that’s 100 miles long and 10ft wide anywhere in the West, there is zero chance of build 100 square mile solar farms for GW compute. This is why people are talking about space compute. Deploying into space is one strategy to solve the constraints. But there are faster and more scalable strategies, that get you to mass deployment of multi GW data centers. There are strategies that also allow you to power the 10 billion robots and their newtonian actuators, that immediately follow the inference demand cycle. Step back and look at the full cycle of this industrial revolution… There will be billions of chips, but there will be trillions of actuators. This biggest part of this revolution is the embodiment cycle, and it’s big by a factor of 20 or 50x over the stuff that comes before it. There is no analogy in human history for the scale of this economy, of the demand it will place on energy and commodities. The humans own the Earth, and if you exist inside their legal system, they won’t let you turn the surface of their planet into glass. But they do want your chips and your actuators to serve their needs and desires. There is a way to do all of this, and so it will happen.

The very first sunrise of the 2000s, marking the start of a new millennium

We can’t let the alt left talking point “fuck them, leave” take hold in California like it has in Washington After the billionaires leave, the bureaucrats turn their sights on the savings of the middle class

Robbing your competition of sleep and/or focus is the oldest trick in the books. I knew a scientist in a race to publish that would suggest The Wire to his competitors.