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A question I haven't heard yet re the current AI hype cycle, as to whether it's a grift or a serious technological step forward is this:
What's IBM doing?
In other words, how many hundreds of billions has big blue dropped on new datacentres and enterprise software tools based on LLMs?
All I can say for sure is I don't see them on isaiprofitable.com :)
@petealexharris IBM is happily selling Series Z mainframes with AI coprocessors to anyone with a workload that needs them. They'll probably lease you one in a datacentre too. And Red Hat is integrating support for LLMs into their OS products. But IBM doesn't seem to be betting the future of the company on ensloppifying their own products or building extra data centres … and they've reportedly begun hiring trainee developers again.
@cstross
Yeah I suspected IBM will have taken a very short time to sus out what they're dealing with.
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