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PyTorch co-creator Soumith Chintala is throwing in the towel in favour of something "small."
A $3 billion Meta deal was limited by capacity admits CEO.
Meta, Google and Microsoft all expect data centre and GPU spend to continue ramping up through 2026, though markets aren't sure about ROI.
AI firms buy compute, infrastructure vendors buy chips, chipmakers invest in infrastructure...
$72 billion in annual infrastructure spend is not enough, suggests Meta.
"Our ads will appear in the Updates tab, in Status and Channels, where people are open to discovery"
"Current privacy controls (e.g., sandboxing approaches, mobile platform and browser permissions, web consent models, incognito modes, resetting mobile advertising IDs, or clearing cookies) are insufficient to control and mitigate it."
Perhaps the military will buy into the Metaverse...