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Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system

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521 points hd4 | 2 comments | 20 Oct 25 12:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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hunglee2 ◴[20 Oct 25 12:59 UTC] No.45643396[source]▶
The US attempt to slow down China's technological development succeeds on the basis of preventing China from directly following the same path, but may backfire in the sense it forces innovation by China in a different direction. The overall outcome for us all may be increase efficiency as a result of this forced innovation, especially if Chinese companies continue to open source their advances, so we may in the end have reason to thank the US for their civilisational gate keeping
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reliabilityguy ◴[20 Oct 25 13:23 UTC] No.45643614[source]▶
Tbh this whole situation reminds of how Japan excelled in making a lot more with a lot less after WW2, e.g., fuel-efficient engines, light cars, etc. these constraints were not present in the US (and to some extent in Europe), and resulted in US cars being completely not competitive in non-US markets.
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tsunamifury ◴[20 Oct 25 15:24 UTC] No.45645003[source]▶
The premature optimizer is never the innovator.

Japan eventually stopped that role and their products improved greatly.

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1. djmips ◴[20 Oct 25 17:38 UTC] No.45646724[source]▶
I like your point but I think it's a little too harsh to call it premature. Sometimes you're forced into that position and it makes sense to do so. But it's a good take if you're busying yourself with optimizations of old tech you'll never innovate or be a leader. It's still a good preoccupation in many constrained situations.
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2. tsunamifury ◴[21 Oct 25 17:10 UTC] No.45658365[source]▶
The massive counter to my point is Sergey brin inventing cloud computing from off the shelf Components because they couldn’t afford standard mainframe hardware of the time.