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"Democratizing AI": OpenAI, Broadcom Unveil New AI Chip As Sam Altman Pushes For Full Control Of Compute Stack
"Democratizing AI": OpenAI, Broadcom Unveil New AI Chip As Sam Altman Pushes For Full Control Of Compute Stack
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, OpenAI's first custom AI accelerator, as Sam Altman's chatbot maker pushes to control more of its data center chip stack and drive greater efficiency to lower inference costs.
The new chip is described as an "Intelligence Processor" and was designed from scratch for large language model inference, the compute-intensive process of serving AI products such as ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API.
"While OpenAI is still measuring final performance,...
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US Energy Efficiency: We Have Come A Long Way
US Energy Efficiency: We Have Come A Long Way
Via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,
The graph below paints a very interesting picture of US energy efficiency and a key structural economic change in this country.
For roughly 25 years after WWII, the US economy’s crude oil consumption nearly tripled. Feeding the growth were a booming post-war economy and strong population growth.
To put consumption in a different context, the graph shows consumption as a ratio to a dollar of real GDP, on a per capita basis.
It shows that consumption per dollar of GDP declined rapidly starting...
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