ML is Simple, Infra is Hard: Public Info Suffices for AI Learning
alex_peys · x · 2026-08-21
Responding to the idea that learning AI from public info is underrated, the author notes a caveat: from an ML perspective, labs do simple things at insane scale. However, the infra details of that scaling are incredibly hard and difficult to learn from public sources.
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