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how much did SpaceX / xAI pay for these GPUs? After 3 years they'll probably be mostly deprecated.
by thetrb 4mo ago
how much did SpaceX / xAI pay for these GPUs? After 3 years they'll probably be mostly deprecated.
- moogly 4mo agoAnd how many of them were diverted from Tesla?
- electriclove 4mo agoPretty sure that Tesla didn't use Colossus. Tesla used Cortex 1 and Cortex 2 which are at the Gigafactory in Austin.
- moogly 4mo agoTesla famously never got to use them https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/06/elon-musk-is-diverting-teslas-gpus-to-x-xai-nvidia-emails-say/ https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/06/elon-musk-is-diverting-...
- electriclove 4mo agoThe article says: In December, an internal Nvidia memo seen by CNBC said, “Elon prioritizing X H100 GPU cluster deployment at X versus Tesla by redirecting 12k of shipped H100 GPUs originally slated for Tesla to X instead. In exchange, original X orders of 12k H100 slated for Jan and June to be redirected to Tesla.”
- electriclove 4mo agoAre GPUs from 3 years ago being deprecated today?
- 3eb7988a1663 4mo agoI thought I saw a report from someone at Google saying that they were still running 7+ year old hardware because of demand. Even if it is not state of the art, if it generates more than the electricity costs, keep it running until it dies.
- WarmWash 4mo agoEfficiency gains have been so intense that old hardware is still viable for serving brand new mid size models.
- throwaway85825 4mo agoLikely legacy products are running on the old chips because the newer generations are capacity constrained.
- dopa42365 4mo agoHetzner is still running and selling Haswell Xeons and GTX-1080s that are 10+ years old. Definitely not silicon waste the second something faster arrives. There's still a world beyond cutting edge LLM slop after all.