Bulk Order of GPUs Points to Twitter Tapping Big Time into AI Potential

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According to Business Insider, Twitter has made a substantial investment into hardware upgrades at its North American datacenter operation. The company has purchased somewhere in the region of 10,000 GPUs - destined for the social media giant's two remaining datacenter locations. Insider sources claim that Elon Musk has committed to a large language model (LLM) project, in an effort to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT system. The GPUs will not provide much computational value in the current/normal day-to-day tasks at Twitter - the source reckons that the extra processing power will be utilized for deep learning purposes.

Twitter has not revealed any concrete plans for its relatively new in-house artificial intelligence project but something was afoot when, earlier this year, Musk recruited several research personnel from Alphabet's DeepMind division. It was theorized that he was incubating a resident AI research lab at the time, following personal criticisms levelled at his former colleagues at OpenAI, ergo their very popular and much adopted chatbot.



The leak of information has not pointed to an exact GPU type, specification or manufacturer. The datacenter-grade cards are speculated to boost Twitter's search functionality via generative AI. The reconstruction of the platform's advertising arm is another area of interest for AI-assisted systems - automation of user targeted material being a distinct possibility. Twitter holds a vast volume of user data, so the new units will have plenty of material to chew through.

Industry experts have been left slightly puzzled by this sudden upshift in Twitter's AI operations, even at such a juvenile stage in development - given Musk's highly publicized criticisms have stretched beyond the scope of OpenAI's goals. He has called (alongside other critics) for the AI industry, as a whole entity, to pause experiments for a six month long period. Calls of hypocrisy, self interest and inconsistencies have been made - so just another normal day at the office for Musk and Twitter.

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[Pumper]

Classic elmo, bitching about the dangers of AI and then ordering a shit ton of GPUs to run AI on his own platform.

 

[Kapone33]

Why doesn't he take some of that and pay the rent he owes and back pay to his workers.

 

[evernessince]

Classic elmo, bitching about the dangers of AI and then ordering a shit ton of GPUs to run AI on his own platform.

He's very good at tweeting before thinking, perfect CEO for the company given he represents what they stand for so well.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Why doesn't he take some of that and pay the rent he owes and back pay to his workers.

I'm sure that you, random TPU poster, know the financials and budgets of twitter better then their CEO.

LOL. LMAO even.

 

[Frick]

I'm sure that you, random TPU poster, know the financials and budgets of twitter better then their CEO.

LOL. LMAO even.

Elon not paying bills, rents, lawyers or salaries are known facts.

 

[Chris34]

Upgrading the bots keeping Twitter alive?

 

[Kapone33]

I'm sure that you, random TPU poster, know the financials and budgets of twitter better then their CEO.

LOL. LMAO even.

Here is some info:

Twitter is being sued (once again) for not paying rent on its offices

Three lawsuits have now been filed by landlords for rent arrears, including a case action that involves King Charles III.

fortune.com

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Twitter is being sued (once again) for not paying rent on its offices

Three lawsuits have now been filed by landlords for rent arrears, including a case action that involves King Charles III.

fortune.com

And I'm sure that the new tech, the growth it will promote, ece would all produce less then this rent costs, right? LMAO.

Welcome to the real world. That legislation, and resulting payout, will be only a fraction of the profit made from new investment. Why cut that profit to pay bills on time?

Like I said, I'm sure you know better then a multi billionaire how to make money.

 

[lemonadesoda]

Classic elmo, bitching about the dangers of AI and then ordering a shit ton of GPUs to run AI on his own platform.

Er, it was very obvious from the start, that it was a request for everyone to please "pause" giving him a chance to catch up and overtake.

 

[mrnagant]

Classic elmo, bitching about the dangers of AI and then ordering a shit ton of GPUs to run AI on his own platform.

Hmm?? Elon is a founder of OpenAI and was on the board until 2018. Tesla is also heavily involved in AI. Neuralink is going to use a lot of AI as well.

 

[ZoneDymo]

Hmm?? Elon is a founder of OpenAI and was on the board until 2018. Tesla is also heavily involved in AI. Neuralink is going to use a lot of AI as well.

its about how Elon wanted to get out of the buying Twitter deal stating its full of bots....and now he is investing in AI.....

And I'm sure that the new tech, the growth it will promote, ece would all produce less then this rent costs, right? LMAO.

Welcome to the real world. That legislation, and resulting payout, will be only a fraction of the profit made from new investment. Why cut that profit to pay bills on time?

Like I said, I'm sure you know better then a multi billionaire how to make money.

Step on a lot of people, thats the way to do it, but hey, whatever you admire man, you do you.

 

[Iain Saturn]

its about how Elon wanted to get out of the buying Twitter deal stating its full of bots....and now he is investing in AI.....

Please tell me you understand the difference.

 

[Steevo]

I'm sure that you, random TPU poster, know the financials and budgets of twitter better then their CEO.

LOL. LMAO even.

The rent article was “Twitter hasn’t paid rent” when the reality was the rent wasn’t due yet on some properties as there was money essentially in escrow and they were renegotiating the lease.

But musk bad cause free speech bad interesting how many “news” outlets had essentially the same hitpiece the very same day. Almost like the media collaborated to smear Musk for doing something they didn’t like.

And amazing how a newb here has to threadcrap…. Like a NPC or bot account.

 

[SOAREVERSOR]

And I'm sure that the new tech, the growth it will promote, ece would all produce less then this rent costs, right? LMAO.

Welcome to the real world. That legislation, and resulting payout, will be only a fraction of the profit made from new investment. Why cut that profit to pay bills on time?

Like I said, I'm sure you know better then a multi billionaire how to make money.

Tesla and SpaceX only exist because of massive government injections of cash. Without the government cash and massive tax breaks to their consumers neither would exist. He also didn't create either of them, he bought them and then begged the government for money and then cried about his taxes.

The only company he does actually run is twitter, and he's been running it straight into the ground!

 

[Vya Domus]

Classic elmo, bitching about the dangers of AI and then ordering a shit ton of GPUs to run AI on his own platform.

The "AI" we have is nowhere close to being advanced enough to pose any danger, we are no where close to human level intelligence, like not even in the same realm and it will likely remain this way for a long time if not forever.

 

[claes]

Tesla and SpaceX only exist because of massive government injections of cash. Without the government cash and massive tax breaks to their consumers neither would exist. He also didn't create either of them, he bought them and then begged the government for money and then cried about his taxes.

The only company he does actually run is twitter, and he's been running it straight into the ground!

Don’t forget the inheritance from dad’s emerald mines. This self-made genius billionaire shtik is just a ruse. If he didn’t have the inheritance he wouldn’t have gotten the subsidies and he’d just be your average bloviating moron without a checkmark asking “what is a woman?” on Twitter.