GenAI poster child is a 100-story-tall baby with simple infrastructure but extreme demands

Interview  When OpenAI launched GPT-4 in March last year, it was coy about the model’s size and what went into making it. Nonetheless, the current focus of AI-obsessed media and investors is understood to have employed a diverse dataset of around 1 petabyte. Aside from the challenge of getting that data to provide meaningful output, the company was tasked with getting the data in the right place.…