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The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice
The $100 Billion Megadeal Between OpenAI and Nvidia Is on Ice - Lemmy.World
> Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has privately played down likelihood original deal will be finalized, although the two companies will continue to have a close collaboration > The companies unveiled the giant agreement [https://archive.ph/o/iOuh5/https://www.wsj.com/tech/nvidia-openai-100-billion-deal-data-centers-d2f85cae] last September at Nvidia’s Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters. They announced a memorandum of understanding for Nvidia to build at least 10 gigawatts of computing power for OpenAI, and the chip maker also agreed to invest up to $100 billion to help OpenAI pay for it. As part of the deal, OpenAI agreed to lease the chips from Nvidia. > > At the time, the ChatGPT-maker expected the deal negotiations to be completed in the coming weeks, people familiar with the plans said. But the talks haven’t progressed beyond the early stages, some of the people said. > > Now, the two sides are rethinking the future of their partnership, some of the people said. The latest discussions, they said, include an equity investment of tens of billions of dollars as part of OpenAI’s current funding round. Archived: https://archive.ph/iOuh5 [https://archive.ph/iOuh5]
Open Source Power
Open Source Power
Open Source Power - Lemmy.World
Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing. I’ve been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I’m just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink, more so here on the fediverse than anywhere else. But I’m scared and tired and we urgently need to get our shit together. Mastodon: https://writing.exchange/@erlend/115549403577231766 [https://writing.exchange/@erlend/115549403577231766]
Open Source Power
Open Source Power - Lemmy.World
Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing. I’ve been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I’m just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink, more so here on the fediverse than anywhere else. But I’m scared and tired and we urgently need to get our shit together. Mastodon: https://writing.exchange/@erlend/115549403577231766 [https://writing.exchange/@erlend/115549403577231766]
Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come - Lemmy.World
> If you’re a regular internet user the Personal Data Storage paradigm won’t move your data from the cloud to your personal computer. Most people will still rely on an institutional cloud service, but instead of data-banking with a shareholder-controlled corporation people’s data can be entrusted to the equivalent of member-owned credit unions for data storage.
It's rude to show AI output to people
ATProto isn't What You Think
ATProto isn't What You Think - Lemmy.World
This post takes a look at ATProto from a different angle, and explores the value of some possibly less-noticed pieces of it. > The “Login with Google” button has been so useful and yet so horrible for the freedom of the web. Why does google get to be the gatekeeper to all of our web logins? > > We need an alternative, but it also needs to be easy, and by making handles domains, and making it so that normal people can use and understand it, they have made it possible for an actually decentralized social login button. > > Linking Identity to your Personal Data Store and using Domains as Handles is a crucialcombination that is really starting to unlock web freedom. > A lot of what I’m trying to get at with this post is that there is more than one way to leverage ATProto, and that there are some pretty major things it has started to do right that we really need right now. > > We’re used to the idea that there’s more than one way to make a web app, and the same is true even if you are building it on ATProto. It hasn’t set a lot in stone, it’s just given us some bricks that we can all share. > > The “AppView” [https://atproto.com/guides/glossary#app-view] is a component of the ATProto architecture that you are given nearly free rein on. It can be any kind of thing you want, and I think there’s all kinds of unexplored possibilities there. > > You might even be able to make an AppView with a meaningful ActivityPub [https://activitypub.rocks/] integration, or possibly borrow ideas about inboxes and outboxes as an alternative to relays.
Weird v0.3 - Dreams for sale!
Weird v0.3 - Dreams for sale! - Lemmy.World
Our v0.3 mvp is finally done after a year of development and many more spent pondering cozy community design. Today it’s a minimalistic personal site generator. Before long it’ll be a social network made of people’s personal websites. Nerdy web weirdos unite ✊❤️🔥 Mastodon: https://writing.exchange/@erlend/113794326443596401 [https://writing.exchange/@erlend/113794326443596401]
When Zig is safer and faster than Rust
When Zig is safer and faster than Rust - Lemmy.World
> There are endless debates online about Rust vs. Zig, this post explores a side of the argument I don’t think is mentioned enough. > > #### Intro / TLDR > > I was intrigued to learn that the Roc language rewrote their standard library from Rust to Zig [https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/blob/main/FAQ.md#why-does-roc-use-both-rust-and-zig]. What made Zig the better option? > > They wrote that they were using a lot of unsafe Rust and it was getting in their way. They also mentioned that Zig had “more tools for working in a memory-unsafe environment, such as reporting memory leaks in tests”, making the overall process much better. > > So is Zig a better alternative to writing unsafe Rust? > > I wanted to test this myself and see how hard unsafe Rust would be by building a project that required a substantial amount of unsafe code. > > Then I would re-write the project in Zig to see if would be easier/better. > > After I finished both versions, I found that the Zig implementation was safer, faster, and easier to write. I’ll share a bit about building both and what I learned.