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Scaling compute is a multidisciplinary infrastructure challenge
Scaling compute is a multidisciplinary infrastructure challenge
Altman describes compute expansion as requiring coordinated work across chips, fabrication, power, finance, policy, supply chains, partnerships, and logistics.
- Speaker
- Sam Altman
- Topic
- Research and Compute
- Source timestamp
- 10:43
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