@mirth @alienghic @cwebber As for the custom chips, I'm not sure how much more customized you can make a chip for ML models than what NVIDIA is cranking out, but at the very least here's what's going on with Microsoft's attempts to get Azure to work on smaller hardware. This is a really sobering read from a former MS system engineer. Certainly, the capability of ARM chips to really change cloud computing if someone can get the ultra-efficient ones to scale up shouldn't be overlooked. And someone else who isn't Microsoft will probably figure it out (although AWS in particular is also staggering under its immense technical debt right now). But there is just one titanic mess after another under the hoods of the major tech firms burning hundreds of billions of VC dollars right now. https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporized-a-trillion