Sharon AI and Firmus are the first partners, with a combined total of up to 210,000 GPUs.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    15 hours ago

    Sounds like another form of debt financing dependent on future profits to repay.

  • Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
    31·
    15 hours ago

    I am not an AI/ML sсeptic, but this scheme really does make it look like the current setup is de facto a collusion driven bubble for scamming.

        • Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish
          2·
          12 hours ago

          Or they are difficult to you because you have an inherent bias of not seeing this particular one.

          • Rekall Incorporated@piefed.socialOPMEnglish
            1·
            11 hours ago

            What do you mean by not seeing this particular one?

            I lean towards agreeing that this is a massive bubble, it’s just these things are complicated and I don’t support making quick judgements in such situations.

            Or were you talking about something completely different? Sorry, I am a little bit confused.

            • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              7 hours ago

              Remember that the big bubbles that popped in the last quarter century or so were based on the internet and housing, both very real and useful things that became a bubble because investors bet way too much speculating on them, including leveraging the rest of the economy for those bets.

              Edit: Forgot my point, but even if AI is valuable for the future (which I’d agree with for AI in general but I’m still skeptical about LLMs getting there), it doesn’t mean it can’t currently be in a bubble.

              Also, the dotcom bubble took out companies that were making real money doing real things right then because they started accepting IOUs instead of money, and did their own leveraging to the point where they couldn’t afford to not get their IOUs paid back, which they weren’t when the companies they got the IOUs from went under.

              Nvidia seems to have about 50 billion in debt and 10 billion in cash. I didn’t look at the breakdowns of when that debt is due, but it’s possible the AI bubble might put them into bankruptcy, especially if their credit rating goes down and they have trouble refinancing.