• melfie@lemmy.zip
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    Are all these data centers really going to be running at full capacity with open models like Qwen 3.6 27B that have performance approaching frontier, but can run on consumer hardware? Sure, it’s slow as of now, though there are tweaks to optimize it, and how long until we see open models that run reasonably fast and give frontier models a run for their money? My company MacBook can run models like this, so will there be a point where companies stop paying hundreds per user per month for cloud AI and have devs run open models on the laptops they already have? I definitely won’t be surprised if that’s the case.

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    35 minutes ago

    Enter the perennial suckers/bag holders, pension funds, run by ivy league hacks that get paid regardless of performance and run these funds.

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    4 hours ago

    I don’t really know what the fuck it is that they expected. They could have asked anyone who wasn’t a so called investment expert and figured it out ages ago. Idiots.

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    16 hours ago

    This AI bubble is going to take so much of the economy with it and I can’t help but think we are all going to be paying to keep “too big to fail” businesses that clearly knew it was a bubble but invested anyway because the public would pay if it went side ways.

    • A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Nah, AI Corpos are not too big to fail. A lot of Money has been dumped into this hole, but it’s irrelevant for keeping the economy itself running. Oracle will not survive its stupid deal with OpenAI tho when the venture capital dries up and Altman can’t pay for Stargate Abilene.

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        Very few of the job losses attributed to AI are really because of AI. Mostly it’s just a bloated tech sector shedding weight and using AI as an excuse because it plays well with shareholders. The reality is that they over-hired when credit was cheap and now they’re looking at their bottom lines and trying to find ways to be more efficient.

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      11 hours ago

      Hanta Virus going transmissable, oil shock already as big as COVID from the war… Going to be a bad summer.

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    19 hours ago

    Groups including JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and SMBC are trying to find ways to distribute portions of data centre-related deals to a broader range of investors, according to people familiar with the matter.

    Lenders are exploring private deals to sell stakes in the debt as well as so-called risk transfers to reduce exposure to big borrowers and free up capacity for more lending.

    This gives me strong deja vu for the housing crisis of '08.

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      5 hours ago

      I bet they’re going to start selling CDO2 again, only this time the underlying debt will be data center debt instead of mortgages.

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      so-called risk transfers to reduce exposure to big borrowers and free up capacity for more lending.

      That sounds like it should be highly illegal.

      “Hey, we know this crash is coming, and we’re going to leave you with the bill for it even though we profited enormously off of the bubble economy which directly resulted in the inevitable crash. And while we wait for that crash to happen, we’re going to continue milking that bubble for the last few scraps of profit that we can squeeze out of it, which we will also leave you with the bill for when it finally crashes.”

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      well maybe call in the debt, force them to pay back a portion to mitigate the fallout. a bailout wont be able to save the fallout of the AI scam.

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      Eh, if they’re actively talking about it, then it’s a lot better than the housing crisis. The big issue there was no one was actually calling the garbage assets garbage. Here they seem to be calling out the risk.

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        Reading further into, it’s a mixed bag. There are people calling it out, but some of the movement of funds is to free up more lending.

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    17 hours ago

    Aww, did you buy a bunch of correlated debt and refuse to validate whether the underlying assets would be profitable?

    That’s too bad.

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      I agree. However, we all know the Federal Reserve will not allow this to happen and that they will just print the money to make them solvent, just like in 2008.

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          It’s always possible, but my guess is that it wouldn’t happen. At least not for now. According to the government, officially, inflation is like 3%, and it takes something like 50% for it to be considered hyperinflation. However, everybody knows that the government inflation figure is understated, and the inflation rate is more like 7% or 8%.

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    19 hours ago

    It’s like they suddenly realized that “data center leased to Oracle” but financed by them and owned by a no-name company with no assets and considerable liabilities is a bad idea.

    Also, would not be surprised to find the company is a shell company and after the finance and legal teams are paid, the income shifts back through shell companies to the parent company, which is somehow Oracle, but with no legal responsibility to the lenders or municipality.

    Even if my supposition is not accurate, just the first statement should have stopped them cold.

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      they finally realized OPENAI is full of sht, even to the point THIEL came out of the woodworks trying to make some wild claims about AI, and then Jensen haung getting very nervous recently too. likely his palantir which we dont know the extent of thier AI must be faltering somewhere/not earning enoug profit, because Israels use of palantir is really just using us taxpayers money.

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      It’s like they suddenly realized that “data center leased to Oracle” but financed by them and owned by a no-name company with no assets and considerable liabilities is a bad idea.

      I would be shocked to discover that that’s not exactly, literally, what happened.

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    18 hours ago

    Why do I feel like “explore private deals” really just means “inventing legal fictions” to permanently insulate themselves from risk?

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    Maybe they can bundle them up into investment vehicles and sell them to normal people, they can name them Regular Everyday Investment Trusts or something. Totally no way for that to fall apart.

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      10 hours ago

      After they sell them, they can bet against their own product, double dipping on their failing portfolios.