So far my favorite response to the news, as will oft be the case in this era, is the white house statement: Yep. China stole this incredibly disruptive/lucrative LLM technique that we all just found out about today from us. However, I will note that the timing is uncannily optimal to disrupt the U.S. and catch the Trump admin with their pants down to the tune of $500 billion on day 3 or so: I am going to seem like a wizard at work. For about four months, I have been telling all of my bosses that the bubble can't inflate indefinitely, and anyone interested (which is me) in gobbling up GPUs for a computer cluster on the cheap should be ready to make a move. Personally, I don't think this is the bubble completely popping, but it's certainly a big loss of hot air (harhar), at the least. Shoot, I thought I had another few months to negotiate some type of purchasing contract. I think I still might. We'll see, tomorrow should be another bloodbath for U.S. AI as this sets in. Yes the fact that energy consumption was eating into GPT's profit margins in the U.S. at this moment was always the most glaring issue, and my concern isn't for OpenAI. It's for the climate. Regardless of how you feel about AI, it's simply disqualifying. The only pro offsetting carbon footprint is... billionaires make more money? This is all more than a little pathetic for perhaps more than anyone else, Sam Altman.“By stifling innovation at home and failing to cut off China’s access to American technology, President Biden created an opportunity for our foreign adversaries to make gains in AI development,” a White House Office of Science and Technology spokesperson said in a statement.