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Photo sharing websites (including Facebook) used to be wrappers around ImageMagick with extra features. I love how the backbone of their training involves calling out to ffmpeg. It gives a little hope to those of us who, too, are working on a smaller scale but with similar techniques.

Scale? I have access to an H100. Meta trained their cat video stuff on six thousand H100s.

They mention that these consume 700W each. Do they pay domestic rates for power? Is that really only $500 per hour of electricity?



They're all investing into their own sources of power. I'm sure Zuck has a few deals in place too.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-considering-nuclear-p...

> Both its competitors, Amazon and Microsoft, have already announced electricity deals with nuclear power stations.

> In March, Amazon inked a $650 million deal to buy electricity from the Susquehanna nuclear power station, per the Financial Times.

> Then, in September, Microsoft signed a 20-year deal to purchase energy from Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island nuclear plant, the plant's owner, Constellation Energy, said in a statement.




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