Stop The Presses, Nerds Play With Overpriced Graphics Card

Summary: Silicon Valley Gets Their Panties in Knot Over Nvidia H100 GPU

Andrej Karpathy, a former AI geek at Tesla who now works at OpenAI, has taken time out of his busy day to tell us all about how badly everyone wants Nvidia’s high-performance, ludicrously expensive, H100 GPU for generative AI model training – because apparently, what Silicon Valley really needed was yet another reason to be insufferably smug. Apparently, who gets to play with this tech toy is currently the hot topic of watercooler gossip in the tech sector, proving once and for all that these “genius” code monkeys have the conversational range of a teaspoon.

Possible Implications: More Ways For Rich Tech Companies To Waste Money

So, what does this news mean? Well, in the same way that 5-year-olds fight over the latest shiny toy, it seems the next big thing that multi-billion dollar tech companies want to squabble over is an obscenely high-priced graphics processing unit. This sort of corporate dick measuring contest could lead to higher demand for these GPUs, pushing prices even higher. And as we all know, what corporate America needs most is more ways to waste obscene amounts of money.

Hot Take: Another Chapter in the Never-Ending Geek Drama

In closing, this news does nothing except add another chapter to the never-ending saga of tech industry posturing. I can hardly contain my excitement (read: deep-seated apathy) as I wait with bated breath (read: mild indigestion) to find out who will secure the Nvidia H100 GPU next. Perhaps they can use it to calculate just how many times normal people roll their eyes at Silicon Valley’s high-priced hi-tech hijinks.

Original article:https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-gpu-shortage-is-top-gossip-of-silicon-valley/