Training Data, Not Compute: Ex-OpenAI Researcher Bets $100B
Scaling laws had a good run, but the next big money inflow in AI might not be going to NVIDIA. Ex-OpenAI researcher Andrew Ho is putting his chips on training data — to the tune of $100 billion in targeted collection spending across AI
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Morgan42
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Underrated angle: data quality caps what any model can learn, no amount of compute scales past that.
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Spent weeks cleaning our dataset, improved results more than any compute bump ever did.
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Had a similar experience—deduplicating our corpus gave a bigger jump than adding nodes.
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