AI Video: $125B for Superintelligence? 3 Models Coming, Sutskever's Secret SSI, & Data Centers (in space)...

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Ilya Sutskever's 'straight shot to superintelligence' is already valued at $5B, but now we get $125B data centers in the works. Yes, plural. Will this be the ultimate gambit on the scaling hypothesis?



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And yes, the title is not clickbait, a company is pledging to build data centers in space, but that follows failed attempts in the sea. Plus, distributed training, Gemini 2, Grok-3, Colossus, CharacterAI, Orion, and ... chapters.



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Chapters:

00:00 - Intro

01:06 – SSI, Safe Superintelligence (Sutskever)

03:45 - Grok-3 (Colossus) + Altman Concerned

05:36 - CharacterAI + Foundation Models

06:26 - $125B Supercomputers + 5-10GW

08:28 - ‘GPT-6’ Scale

09:07 - Zuckerberg on Exponentials and Doubt

09:42 - Strawberry/Orion + Connections + Weights

11:39 - Data Centers in Space (and the sea)

12:45 - Distributed Training + SemiAnalysis Report w/ Gemini 2

17:34 - Climate Change Pledges?



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Safe Superintelligence (Sutskever SSI): https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-co-founder-sutskevers-new-safety-focused-ai-startup-ssi-raises-1-billion-2024-09-04/

$125B Data Centers: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/two-ai-developers-are-plotting-125-billion-supercomputers?utm_source=ti_app&rc=sy0ihq

Altman ‘Too Aggressive’: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-has-talked-to-broadcom-about-developing-new-ai-chip?rc=sy0ihq

OpenAI Orion: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-races-to-launch-strawberry-reasoning-ai-to-boost-chatbot-business?rc=sy0ihq

Semianalysis Report: https://www.semianalysis.com/p/multi-datacenter-training-openais

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/100000-h100-clusters-power-network

Xai Colossus: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1830650370336473253

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1815341263102804072

Altman Reacts: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/introducing-the-ai-data-center-database?rc=sy0ihq

GPT-6 Co-location: https://x.com/corbtt/status/1772392525174620355

Data Centers in Space: https://x.com/8teAPi/status/1831113308356964464

And Underwater: https://www.itpro.com/infrastructure/data-centres/microsoft-scrapped-its-project-natick-underwater-data-center-trial-heres-why-it-was-never-going-to-work

Zuckerberg on Power and Exponentials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-o5YbNfmh0

Epoch AIB Report: https://epochai.org/blog/can-ai-scaling-continue-through-2030

Original SuperAlignment Deadline: https://openai.com/index/introducing-superalignment/

Character AI Bought: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-hires-character-ai-cofounders-and-licenses-its-models?rc=sy0ihq





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