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AI Compute 101: The Geopolitics of Giant Models

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Is It Easier to Make the Transistor Smaller?

Is it cheaper to or more efficient to innovate in the chip level or innovate in the algorithm level? Or what sort of way to think about that trade off? It's like pretty, pretty hard. I mean, what we've seen on a chip level is just like ideas are getting harder to find,. We need to spend exponential more money to get smaller transistors. And then you have like this multiplication effect, right? You've got a better architecture, you've got better chips.

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