* Posts by David Cotton

5 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Dec 2020

France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter. Still nowhere near America’s $500B bet

David Cotton

Totally unnecessary as Deepseek have shown. There's no reason to run the CCP version, but the models themselves are groundbreaking.

More efficent models are the way forward. All the hardware needed to run all the models we'll need for years, already exists. This is just burning 50bn or 500bn in the US case. Crazy.

DeepSeek spills Big AI's open secret: Bright people with good ideas can beat billion dollar binges

David Cotton

Not at all, they just trained the model on that many hours of gpu usage. You can rent the gou time in the cloud and it'll cost similar.

It shouldn't be long before western version trained models exist using deep seeks open source models.

Apple Intelligence summary botches a headline, causing jitters in BBC newsroom

David Cotton

LLMs, the most over hyped technology in history by a large margin.

OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg – all services unavailable

David Cotton

We sure this was an accident?

Best to wait for the investigation but this shouldn't be able to happen in any modern data centre.

SolarWinds: Hey, only as many as 18,000 customers installed backdoored software linked to US govt hacks

David Cotton

The question we should be asking is:

With seemingly admin access to the networks of so many other software (and other) companies. What other "digitally signed" malware will they have created in the last 9 months whilst they had access to do so?

Conceivably all kinds of software could have been tampered with, with the access obtained through solar winds Orion. No way of knowing without companies going line by line through all the software they've released in the last 6-9 months. Even the big boys, Microsoft, Google, Apple if they used the compromised version of Orion on their networks, any software they've release since March could also have been compromised.