Nvidia H100: Typically priced around $25,000–$30,000 (global MSRP).

Huawei Ascend 910C: Reported to cost roughly $28,000, yet it delivers only 60% of the inference performance of the Nvidia H100.

Google's TPUs are significantly cheaper for Google for inference. That's pretty much it.

There's a reason nVidia has an 80% margin right now.

It will come to light that one or many of the Frontier providers held the data, changed ToS and trained later minimally. But I think they just don't care and will train regardless. None of them abide by any level of ethics that would actually prevent them from leveraging an opportunity.

One possibility that seems likely to me: it takes longer than a single election cycle for an investment like that to bear fruit. And you have to be willing to admit that some bets the state places will lose. This is harder in the kind of democracy and political climate that the US currently has. China's government has more continuity of leadership and a strong emphasis on stability that seem hard to achieve in the US without a lot more political cohesion and more nuanced opposition than the two-party system currently affords.

If we could achieve it, though, it'd be awesome. Some "best of both worlds" stuff.

Healthcare in South Korea for example is government managed and it is one of the best healthcare in the world.

I believe utility companies are also government owned.

Also some of the well known companies now were practically government owned during the Park dictatorship in the 70s.

I wouldn't use the term "Flourish" as what you hear and see is strictly controlled

When things line up and the decisions are decent, top down can be really good.

When the decisions are bad, it is exceptionally dramatic failures too. Tofu dregs, etc.

Right now, no one has to liquidate so it’s easy to hide the damage though.