2025-11-27
sfcompute has raised $40m we're hiring linux programmers to work on supercomputers
Wall Street Journal
San Francisco Compute, which provides a marketplace for AI computing capacity, raised a $40M Series A led by DCVC and Wing Venture Capital at a $300M valuation
Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal :
2024-09-13
the o1 model is great for compute cost performance, because it removes latency as the bottleneck (100ms vs 20s thinking time), which means more clusters around the world are viable at any given time to do inference, increasing liquidity
Simon Willison's Weblog
OpenAI's o1 models aren't as simple as the next step up from GPT-4o as they introduce major cost and performance trade-offs in exchange for improved “reasoning”
OpenAI released two major new preview models today: o1-preview and o1-mini (that mini one is also a preview …
the o1 model is great for compute cost performance, because it removes latency as the bottleneck (100ms vs 20s thinking time), which means more clusters around the world are viable at any given time to do inference, increasing liquidity
The Verge
OpenAI releases o1, the first of its rumored reasoning-focused Strawberry models, in preview, alongside a smaller o1-mini, for ChatGPT Plus and Team subscribers
Advancing cost-efficient reasoning. — Contributions Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET : OpenAI trained its new o1 AI models to think before they speak - how to access them Ethan Mollick / On...
2022-06-24
Since I keep getting asked this, here's the answer to the claim “after 13 years, there are still no use cases for crypto.” This claim is not falsifiable, though I'm interested to hear it reframed in a way that is. https://evanjconrad.com/...
Evan Conrad
Crypto may be “more bad than good” but it has use cases like cutting out middlemen via decentralization, so the claim that it has “no use cases” is not rational
Evan Conrad :
On this general note, currently my favorite rationally-minded crypto-skeptics are: - @patio11 - @devonzuegel - @larsiusprime You should follow them! Anyone have other suggestions? https://twitter.com/...
Evan Conrad
Crypto may be “more bad than good” but it has use cases like cutting out middlemen via decentralization, so the claim that it has “no use cases” is not rational
Evan Conrad :
Weirdly, I think skeptics give more weight to speculators than crypto people. Most crypto people I know down-weight the obvious scams to 0, which makes crypto small & early. But skeptics seem to compare everything against the scams, oddly giving them more weight
Evan Conrad
Crypto may be “more bad than good” but it has use cases like cutting out middlemen via decentralization, so the claim that it has “no use cases” is not rational
Evan Conrad :