• humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    13 days ago

    Definitely massive risk. They are giving away about $200-$400/week user credits for their Muse agent. Hardly anyone would need more than that, but it requires giving them credit card info. Massive competition being released in this personal agent space, just a few weeks after their rollout.

    SpaceX is going even more nuts. Musk is a fraud supported by Zionist first political rule over US with support for his fraud, but 1.3gw of “spec” datacenters comming online in next 3 months is 5x the hourly gpu rental inventory in the US. BS goal about 10gw extra in 2027 is still gross overspending that makes everyone else go bankrupt from Nvidia price hikes. Grok and Cursor revenue combined still under $1b (last quarter). Zionazi circular financing for GOP corruption will starve rest of industry from access to capital.

    IPOs are failing everywhere. UAE being forced geopolitically to bail out OpenAI with $30b, because they are out of cash. Coreweave needs $2b cash just to make it to end of year, but no one will give it to them. SpaceX in similar cash burn rate.

    SpaceX and Meta are both building to just rent GPUs to desperate labs without firm contracts. All labs have separate plans. Coreweave gives massive discounts that force structural losses before impossible interest costs, and Nvidia’s power to charge whatever it wants for delivery. Collapse is very near.

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      12 days ago

      I can’t wait to buy a video accelerator and hard disks for cheap again. So I can’t wait for the AI bubble to pop. The only problems is that the whole economy will tank at the same time…

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      So wait. What is the story with coreweave. You mentioned labs desperate for gpu, and there very much is a shortage. Coreweave rents that. So they should be making miney handover fist.

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        Coreweave makes long term revenue deals before building anything, but they charge too little. They are forced to accept whatever price hikes Nvidia tells them to pay, and are running out of cash in next 2 months, with borrowing rates over 15% to get more cash. In last quarter, their average interest rate was over 8%, and even if they used a 10 year depreciation schedule, they would still have lost money.

        When hourly GPU rental prices go up, coreweave doesn’t make more money. They have tiny spot inventory. It is also a lie that there is gpu shortages, because if there were, there wouldn’t be such rapid model releases. NVidia GPUs are only competitive at training, but if there were any genuine scarcity, new models would come out slower so that inference/revenue making could be prioritized.

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          Hm, so boring from tomorrow to make profits today is catching up with them. Guess I am not surprised.

          I dunno about that rational to say there isn’t a shortage. I know consumers struggle to buy GPUs, even when they are willing to pay a lot. And a buddy of mine works at a company where they couldn’t get enough GPUs for their datacenter and were forced to rent from coreweave.

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    12 days ago

    On to the next idea that is clearly a failure at inception to everyone but Zuckerfuck and his circle of sycophants

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    13 days ago

    They aren’t concerned with the destruction of the planet caused by their quenchless data centers. Or their massive privacy invasion of citizens. Or their tactics used to addict children to their platform.

    At the end of the day, every board member of Meta is just as nasty as Zuck himself.

    Anyone using Meta is feeding the nasty machine

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      12 days ago

      A.) Meta’s issuing new shares for this, so it’s shareholders, not the company, that are going to pay his tax bill.

      B.) The deal is issuing non-voting shares so he still holds the majority of shares that matter after this.

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    13 days ago

    Only in Silicon Valley can a CEO burn billions chasing an AI gold rush, send free cash flow below zero, and then demand a bigger payday for his visionary leadership. The board’s ultimate weapon? Threatening to quit. Corporate governance at Meta is basically a fire alarm that needs Zuckerberg’s permission to ring.

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        13 days ago

        That might be just that they’ve got so much money in Meta that they can’t afford it fail.

        Edit: what I mean is that there might be gambler’s fallacy at play

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          Got an email last week that my FB account had been upgraded to Meta for free? I guess they need to fudge the subscriber numbers?

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      Meta does have some very specific issues with their corporate governance in that regard. Mark’s contact basically makes him impossible to fire as CEO. It’s an unusual situation that should have set off alarm bells for investors years ago.

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    13 days ago

    They needed to make moves when he was doing his stupid metaverse hobby/project.

    Now they’re hemorrhaging money.

    Get rid of that liability.

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    13 days ago

    I think that there’s a lot more potential in AI than there is in VR, which was his last expensive pet project.

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    13 days ago

    I do not get the skepticism? I 100% trust Zuckerberg that this will be about as profitable as the metaverse. 🤣 🤡 💸

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        12 days ago

        Yep he didn’t build Instagram, WhatsApp, or even the Facebook ad engine, which is arguably Meta’s actual product.

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          They made this movie about him like 20 years ago. It had this scene of him in college in a computer science class. Like he was such a genius and knew better than the professor. So much cringe.

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            Didn’t see the movie, but in the early 2000s he probably did know more than his professor. 10-years before that, my university had exactly one computer for the whole graphic design college. 20-years before that, computer class was, “Here’s, uh, this thing. Have fun.”

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              In a computer science program? At an Ivy League university? After the year 2000? lol no. They had more than one computer and their CS professors would have had PHDs in Computer Science.

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                12 days ago

                You’re right, forgot we were talking about Harvard and not my cow school at OK State U.

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        They’re all like this as well. “Look how smart we are, making lots more money by starting with lots of money getting very lucky”.

        It would be like a roomful of lottery winners sitting around sipping brandy, and musing about how they’re better number pickers than anyone else, and sharing tip on picking out random digits…

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        He’s not even a one hit wonder. The only good idea he ever had he stole. His company was built by people he conned and then threw under the bus. Every achievement since then was someone else’s good idea that he bought.

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    “I think it’s the right strategy to aggressively front-load building capacity so that way we’re prepared for the most optimistic cases,” Zuckerberg told stockholders in 2025.

    And what if the results aren’t optimistic? Do these people forget there are still some things in the world they can’t will into existence?

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      The real reason is because the data centers aren’t for AI. They’re for taking up all the components so you can’t compute independently anymore and you need to run “apps” from the ”cloud” so they can “monitor” your “behavior” for “tailored ads” and “terrorist threats” and cut you off completely if you ever retroactively violated their updated EULA that covers all the people they don’t like.

      They are stealing computing from us and the business world is letting it happen in the name of cost savings.

      I swear to god before I die I will see capitalism driven into the mud to drown

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        Part of cyberpunk is that the gilded corporations in the sky have white labs and clean computers, but the other part is that street people find their own uses for the leftover hunks of technology considered to be not pretty enough for sale.

        In less convoluted terms, nobody fucking needs cloud computing. We used to write software on things that were half as powerful just a decade ago, and software capabilities have stagnated even as computing power has increased because the focus is more on stupid corporate bullshit than…you know? actually solving problems?

        The phone you have in your pocket (or even posted this post on) is likely more powerful than anything that was even available 10 or 15 years ago. The joke computers that they’ll sell you right now for $200 with an adware-ridden crap OS like Chromebooks are capable of running and even building better software than anything that was available during the first software boom in the late 90s (they just might need a good wiping first).

        I am much more interested in the part of cyberpunk we haven’t seen much of…where people take down Flock cameras and make them into free wifi repeaters or other types of servers and hobbyists take over again. Corporate software sucks nuts.

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    According to documents viewed by the WSJ, a negotiation team made up of three members of the board began preparing a contingency plan in early September, to use in the event that Zuckerberg refused to back down from his compensation demands. That standby plan reportedly included “resignation from the board” by the negotiation team as a last resort.

    Conceptually the CEO has to answer to the board, and the board acts in the interest of the shareholders.

    Somehow the board’s major card to play here is that of negotiations fail then members of the board will resign. How that applies any pressure or leverage against Zuckerberg remains unclear.

    Acquiesce to my demands or I will leave quietly and stop bugging you.