The cloud is the biggest impediment to AI
Interchain.fm Ep. 15 Akash: Taking on AWS with Decentralized Cloud Computing (Cosmos)
“The biggest impediment for AI right now is the cloud. It’s really bad — Amazon, sorry. A[ndreessen] Horowitz came out with a report indicating that about 20 [percent] of the companies that do AI, their margins go to Amazon. It’s ridiculously expensive.” — 00:33:18
Context: Arguing that solving compute efficiency will make compute cost “second nature”; he adds (00:33:59) “once we can essentially unlock that… we’re going to see a whole lot of new use cases that you can’t imagine — that’s the thing about future, you can’t really picture it.”