Nobel Laureate Can't Get 32 B200s While Shell AI Companies Raise Billions
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-13
A resurfaced interview reveals a Nobel laureate couldn't secure 32 B200 GPUs to analyze petabytes of microscopy imaging data, calling $50M a killing amount—while empty 'AI' startups raise billions and hundreds of thousands of GPUs run TikTok slop. The poster calls out the absurd misallocation of compute.
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