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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Super computers have been doing this sort of stuff for decades without much problem

Idk if I'd point at a supercomputer system and suggest it was constructed "without much problem". Cray has significantly lagged the computer market as a whole.

the main issue is on training for LLMs inference is pretty computationally cheap

Again, I would not consider anything in the LLM marketplace particularly cheap. Seems like they're losing money rapidly.