the precise timeline of how OpenAI fucked over the RAM market
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I can't tell if you're serious, but Ariadne is right. Simple example: Flac will losslessly compress audio better than zip or gzip will. That's why it was invented.
@CppGuy @Vorsos @ariadne @BillSaysThis @davidgerard
Interestingly enough, Chinchilla 70B was trained mostly on text and beat domain-specific compressors PNG and FLAC in one experiment.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.10668
Not saying you are wrong. I assume that newer, domain-specific algorithms would still outperform the general Chinchilla algorithm, and there can be practical downsides if they involve large memory requirements, even if they result in more efficient compression.
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the precise timeline of how OpenAI fucked over the RAM market
> October 2025: Sam Altman flies to Seoul and signs simultaneous deals with Samsung and SK Hynix for 900,000 DRAM wafers per month. That's 40% of global supply. Neither company knew the other was signing a near-identical commitment at the same time.
@davidgerard I wonder though, if the demand side is collapsing this quickly, why isn't the price following? "Analysts expect elevated prices until 2028" are they lying? Trying to protect their investment? Or is there more at play than Altmans eccentrism?
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