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> Our cloud business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term revenues because we are making compute trade-offs to support frontier AI development

Sundar Pichai just this week.

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/google-ceo-...

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This can be just as well phrased as:

> Our frontier AI business is at any given moment in time forgoing short-term development because we are making compute trade-offs to support our cloud business revenues.

Exactly, the definition of tradeoffs

Infact all companies, at all times are doing tradeoffs. You and I can be doing something else right now but I'm here on HN replying to you - and that's a tradeoff.

If someone suggests -just do X then you don't have to do a tradeoff, that just sounds wrong to me.

The primary trade off amounts to CEOs enriching themselves by sucking resources out of the company they control. They trade the company's future and their employee's incomes for personal wealth. Investors are the bag holders for CEOs and their insiders.

Google is a multi trillion dollar company. Sundar Pichai is only recently a billionaire.

The investors are the ones whose net worth is measured in trillions, and most of the individuals are invested through 401k and pension accounts.

We’ve been seeing compute allocation failures in GCP us-central1 for about a month now- that can’t be related can it? These aren’t TPUs, this is normal compute for dataflow/etc jobs.

Frontier AI development via agents uses plenty of CPU compute. Maybe in a lopsided way during development as opposed to training?

10 bucks say it's just a high-demand region and GCP's hardware supply chains are at capacity. So you see stockouts.

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