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AI's Trillion-Dollar Gamble and OpenAI's Biology Data Bid
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沃顿商学院教授算了一笔账：几家超大规模云厂商到2027年要在AI数据中心上花掉近1.1万亿美元。要想在2030年前回本，生产力必须出现巨大飞跃——具体多大正文没细说，但“巨大”这个词本身就说明压力不小。另一边，OpenAI基金会正在资助一个项目：从破产生物技术公司手里买数据——监管文件、生产工艺、安全记录——用来训练医疗AI。相当于把倒闭公司的“遗产”...
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Sep 16
- MIT Technology Review · AIAI's Trillion-Dollar Gamble and OpenAI's Biology Data Bid
A Wharton professor calculates that hyperscalers will spend nearly $1.1 trillion on AI data centers by 2027. They need a huge productivity jump just to break even by 2030. Separately, the OpenAI Foundation is funding the purchase of data from bankrupt biotech firms—regulatory filings, manufacturing strategies, safety records—to train medical AI. Nvidia and Meta CEOs also rejected calls for a coordinated AI slowdown.