Welcome to episode 289 of The Cloud Pod – where the forecast is always cloudy! Justin, Ryan, and Matt are here this week to bring you a riveting podcast on EU regulations! Are you asleep yet? No? Ok great. We promise it will be a good show – despite the title.
Titles we almost went with this week: - Stargate: We’re not saying its Aliens, but its $500 Billion
- AWS: Now with extra sessions
- EC2 Flex: Bigger, Badder and Probably still expensive
- SNS FIFO: So fast, it’ll give you whiplash
- Azure: Now with added Legalese (Thanks, EU)
- OpenAI’s Stargate: From Chatbots to Interdimensional Travel (maybe)
- GCP’s Biochar Initiative: Turning Waste into… Well, Less Waste (hopefully)
- AWS Console Multiple Sessions: So you can prove you dropped those databases from multiple accounts
- Amazon still adds new features to SNS and the cloud pod is impressed
- AWS tries to kill chrome profiles
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- Open AI announced a joint investment of $500 billion dollars over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the US, with the intent to deploy $100B immediately.
- This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefits for the entire world.
- The initial equity funders in stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle and MGX.
- Softbank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with Softbank having financial responsibility, and OpenAI having operational responsibility.
- Arm, Microsoft, Nvidia, Oracle and OpenAI are the key initial technology partners.
- The buildout is currently underway starting in Texas, and they are evaluating potential sites across the country for more campuses as they finalize definitive agreements.
- As part of Stargate, Oracle, Nvidia and OpenAI will closely collaborate to build and operate this computing system. This builds on a deep collaboration between OpenAI and NVIDIA going back to 2016, and a newer partnership between OpenAI and Oracle.
- This also builds on the existing OpenAI partnership with Microsoft. OpenAI will continue to increase its consumption of Azure as OpenAI continues its work with Microsoft with this additional computer to train leading models and deliver great products and services.
- “All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop AI—and in particular AGI—for the benefit of all of humanity.” This quote TOTALLY didn’t terrify us…
- Our conversations back in December about OpenAI trying to figure out their ownership model makes a lot more sense now.
07:22 Justin – “…it’s interesting that SoftBank is investing so much money into it considering, you know, the trade issues with China and SoftBank, you know, being mostly Chinese owned and invested in. Yeah. It’s one of the things abo...
