At that moment what choice would the government have but to conduct a rescue that at least keeps the lights on, and probably more? What’s the alternative? Extensive data losses, business interruptions— if just a couple of those key companies spontaneously stopped operating, chaos.
There would not really be a huge rush if they are cashflow positive, they can take their time.
Source, we basically explored this at my previous job, and that was 7 years back.
Of course, we can always find ways to use compute in non-productive ways—mining crypto, for instance.
Cohere raised from Nvidia. Cohere spends on Coreweave. Coreweave raised from Nvidia and buys Nvidia chips.
This is why they buy from Coreweave.
You get GPU rentals. Not the actual billions raised they claim. So it's just creative accounting to count the same money 2-4x.
I have a lot of opinions on this but curious about yours :)
I don't have a good idea of what happened inside or what they could have done differently, but I do remember them going from a world-leading LLM AI lab to selling embeddings to enterprise.
That said, Cohere only got a couple hundred million from CA and the DC is being built "domestic" in CA.
That's not enough?
Sounds like you're knowledgeable about the skills gap of do-ers in CA govt, but I'd be concerned about wasting even more time/$ through incompetence. And a politician would be staked on its outcome. That's too much political risk.
Additionally, Cohere is no less “kids” than Anthropic or OpenAI. Aidan was literally one of the co-authors of “Attention is all you need”.
https://www. theinformation.com/articles/openai-challenger- cohere-fell-85-short-early-revenue- forecast
>While an intern at Google Brain, Aidan Gomez co-authored the paper "Attention Is All You Need" with other researchers.
>The authors of the paper are: Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar, Jakob Uszkoreit, Llion Jones, Aidan Gomez, Łukasz Kaiser, and Illia Polosukhin. All eight authors were "equal contributors" to the paper; the listed order was randomized.
Intern or not, it still sounds like he contributed substantially.