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lacker t1_jefpz2c wrote

I’m a big fan of open source AI research, but creating a new facility doesn’t seem like the way to go. If you’re making a GPU cluster that has to be shared among a bunch of different academic groups, you’ll have to build resource-sharing software, infrastructure tools, etc, and spend all this money on what is essentially an AWS clone.

Wouldn’t it be more effective to simply give this money to AI research groups and let them buy infrastructure from the most cost-effective provider? If AWS works best, fine, if it’s some smaller infrastructure provider, that’s fine too.

This proposal seems like it would actually divert money away from AI, by spending a lot of money rebuilding the standard cluster infrastructure stuff that cloud providers already have.

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nateharada t1_jeh5bir wrote

I personally feel we need large scale collaboration, not each lab having a small increase. Something like a James Webb telescope or a CERN. If they make a large cluster that's just time shared between labs that's not as useful IMO as allowing many universities to collaborate on a truly public LLM that competes with the biggest private AI organizations.

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