Bob Worm wrote to Dumas Walker <=-
I hope when the wheels fall off all this generative AI stuff that all
the high performance RAM and GPUs flooding into the markey can be
snapped up for a pittance by cancer research organisations or something actually useful.
Y Combinator had an article about a guy who bought an AI system from
Nvidia used for $7500 - it had been poorly converted from water cooling
to air cooling and ran on 48V; can't find the link now. It would have
cost at least high 5 figures new.
Unfortunately, I'm guessing that it'll be like the bitcoin GPU wars of
the early 21st century, where the market price was driven up by miners,
then they flooded the market with used, cooked GPUs for the same price
or slightly less than they sold for new before the gold rush.
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