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Jonathan Ross
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CEO + Founder @ Groq, the Most Popular API for Fast Inference | Creator of the TPU and LPU, Two of the World’s Most Important AI Chips | On a Mission to Double the World's AI Compute by 2027
Thank you! 🙏
January 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Over the next decade, we want to drive the cost down for generative AI 1,000x making a lot more activities profitable. And we think that that will cause a 100x spend increase.

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January 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Over the last 60 years, almost like clockwork, every decade compute gets about 1000x cheaper, people buy 100,000x as much of it, spending 100x times more overall. 

Our mission at Groq is to drive the cost of compute towards zero;The cheaper we make compute the more people spend.

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January 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
- The answer is when you make a steam engine more efficient, it reduces the OpEx;

- When you reduce the OpEx, it increases the number of activities that are profitable;

- Therefore, people will do more things using steam engines and coal demand rises.

The same paradox applies to compute.

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January 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It’s a paradox because if they're more efficient, why are they buying more coal?

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January 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM
(5/5) Learning: product-led growth works; even when your product is too large and expensive to let people have it for free, you just have to be more creative about it.
December 10, 2024 at 3:44 PM