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AI Compute 101: The Geopolitics of Giant Models

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Introduction

Leonard Heim is a researcher at the Center for the Governance of AI and author of an AI compute syllabus primer. "We cannot do AI stuff without processors without compute," he says. The question is like, how much do we need of it, right? It's just smartphone in your pocket sufficient or do we actually need like a whole warehouse out of it? And the answer for machine learning is both - depends on what you're doing.

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