Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation

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Greg Brockman, OpenAI's President, reflected on the tktk-day period when CEO Sam Altman was removed from his duties.

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Gruve raises $50 million to solve what its CEO calls AI's biggest problem: power

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AI has been all about GPUs. That's changing fast.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang

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'Let chaos reign': AI inference costs are about to plummet

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Nvidia might actually lose in this key part of the AI chip business

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  • Inference made up 40% of Nvidia's $26.3 billion Q2 data center revenue.
  • Inference computing demand will increase as AI matures.
  • Companies like Groq and Cerebras are launching inference chips to compete with Nvidia.

In AI hardware circles almost everyone is talking about inference.

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