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QuarZo Media Hello and welcome to your weekly better offline monologueologue at I, of course, I'm Ed Zittron.

So as you'll find out in tomorrow's episode, the future of generative AI hinges heavily on

open AI raising tens of billions of dollars, the majority of it from

SoftBank, a huge Japanese investment firm that has to take out billions of dollars of loans to fund them,

along with their contribution to the Stargate Data Center project. And as I went into in

yesterday's episode, Microsoft is pulling back from over a gigawatt of data center capacity,

and it certainly looks like these moves are an intentional move to distance themselves from OpenAI, cutting back on

data center expansion just as America's worst company needs more of it. Meanwhile, Mark Benioff, CEO

of Salesforce, he's sounding the alarm, saying at a recent CNBC conference that he believed

hypers were under hypnosis in their aggressive pursuit of data center expansion and training larger

and larger language models.

Benioff believes that, and I quote-ish, it referring to data center expansions and larger language

models, has to be rethought.

Exactly what are you doing?

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