BEIJING, CHINA - MAY 12: A man plays Chinese chess with his grandson at a local park on May 12, 2021in Beijing, China. According to data released by the government from a national census, China's population grew 0.53 percent over the last 10 years down from 0.57 percent a decade ago bringing the population to 1.41 billion. As we look at the trajectory of enterprise AI near the end of 2024, it seems like the landscape of the industry is becoming more fully baked.
For instance, you might be able to score a game of chess pretty well, because of all of its technical criteria and logical gameplay, but what about scoring an essay, or a collection of recipes, or something that seems to be the product of an engaged and aware sentience? In this write-up, the authors start with the supposition that we’re seeing more of a market equilibrium on ownership of AI results and powers.What these prescient analysts are telling us, and what we’re seeing, is that a number of large companies have access to the kinds of hardware and systems that will host the best and brightest of AI’s digital citizens.
In order to get the most out of the latest science, you need to build big: for example, Elon Musk is building the Colossus system, which houses many hundreds of Nvidia GPUs to really support all of this inference time thinking that’s going on in the most complex models.