OpenAI Hoarding Tens Of Thousands Of Apple Mac mini And Mac Studio Devices, As ASUS And MSI Burn Through Their Entire First Batch Of NVIDIA RTX Spark Chip And Beg For More
wccftech.com
AI labs are going after any compute-capable machine, including Apple Mac mini and Mac Studio devices, as well as the NVIDIA RTX Spark PCs.
  • eicker@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    OpenAI buying tens of thousands of Macs for AI is the funniest possible plot twist: spend years convincing everyone the cloud is the future, then discover the hottest AI infrastructure is basically a warehouse full of Mac minis. Somewhere, an IT admin is whispering: »I told you so.«

    • Waterpumpee@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      What exactly do you think a cloud is? It’s built exactly like that, computers connected and orchestrated to run a client’s arbitrary services.

      Now the interesting thing here is to choose many different types of smallscale hardware. Must be some fun to administrate.