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The speaker doubts that the three sources of 3x annual compute growth can be accelerated substantially or even sustained.
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“To illustrate why I think this 3x in compute capacity year over year is hard to budge or potentially even...”
“actually even sustain is that I don't see how any of the three elements that constitute that 3x can be much accelerated.”7:48Report a misattribution
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