Tao said the company plans to “minimize the impact” of rising memory costs by focusing on “monetizing the installed base” and growing software and network services revenue.
Maybe something lost in translation but that sure sounds like gouging existing customers to me.
It’s absolutely both.
Fucking gaming, forget gaming for a second. That is small potatoes.
Imagine if you will, all businesses and citizens storing their documents, photos, schedules, calendars, emails, contacts, social graphs in the cloud. We’ve know how toxic monetization of social media profiling has been, but again forget that, small potatoes.
Business move their storage to the cloud. Hundreds of thousands of AI agents scour over and summarize all of that data - not the LLMs designed to dazzle the public but purpose-built ML models designed to analyze financial reports, engineering whitepapers, patent applications, mission statements, insider information. You can see markets move in real time. You can gauge who is going to beat you and who is going to crash and burn before they do. You can see where the dark money is coming from - whether it’s on your side or not. You can discern where opposing political messaging is reaching people, and dissect how they’re interacting with it. You can hold all of society hostage.
Cameras move their storage to the cloud. Hospital systems. Cars beam constant telemetry. There’s nowhere to hide, it’s a constant prison and if you even appear to be getting out of line, it’s over for you.
We’re not there yet but this is what they’re building. Trump is mad that America broke up his pedo ring and his revenge is putting us all in a demented techno prison.