Ex-Stability AI Founder on Kimi's Compute Cost Paradox
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-07-20
Former Stability AI co-founder Emad Mostaque highlights an AI development "paradox": although much model R&D has shifted to China (e.g., Moonshot's Kimi), US companies (like Modal and Fireworks) can provide inference services at one-tenth the cost of Chinese rivals due to their access to advanced Nvidia and AMD chips.
He emphasized that once models are optimized for next-gen hardware (like Nvidia's Rubin architecture), operational costs could drop by 10 to 100 times.
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