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>The key difference between xAI and Anthropic/OAI/Google is that xAI has the least-likely path to existing as viable business in a decade.

I don't know, renting out a fleet of GPUs at annualized rate of ~100% of the capex deployed to obtain said GPUs seems reasonably better than lighting hundreds of billions of dollars on fire in order to earn tens of billions of dollars.

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The GPUs that depreciate like gangbusters. Yeah, solid long term plan.

3090s are still selling at damn near their release MSRP.

They're not filling datacenters with 3090s. With the amount of headache and the amount of infrastructure needed to support those beasts, do they even have a resale price at all? Or just scrap value?

you know you can just log onto eBay and see what the price of a used H100 is. nobody is stopping you

Wasn't thinking of H100s either. I spoke of infrastructure support, and I was being literal. A herd of GB200s needs a building built to stringent specifications to house them.

Yes. Their resale price is in the same range as the cost of a new car. I'd buy one if I could, but they're too expensive for me.

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