[lvh]

We're talking about chips: stuff optimized for inference and training. It may have a lot of memory, it may be able to perform a lot of operations, but it would be difficult for it to enforce high-level concepts like "woke ChatGPT".

[consumer451]

Are you telling me that the investors who give sama $trillions don't expect influence on the final product?

Isn't this the definition of soft power? [0]

When NVIDIA sells GH200s to OpenAI, they expect nothing beyond the transaction. That's very different from getting trillions of dollars in investment from somebody to build chip fabs, etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power