Chatbots vs Large Data Centers vs Supercomputers.
This page (AI) -- chatbots.
Reminder: I'm delineating between AI, large data centers, and supercomputers.
Introduction to large language models (LLMs): Netguru. ChatGPT (closed model) vs Llama (open model).
- ChatGPT: closed-source
- all the rest: open-source or "kind of open"
AI languages:
- OpenAI: ChatGPT -- tracked here on the blog.
- o1 (seminal article? August 3, 2025) -- link here.
- o4-mini -- link here. Introduced April 16, 2025.
- GPT-5 -- link here. Launched August 7, 2025.
- Google: Gemini
- Material Three Expressive (announced May 16, 2025)
- Astra (announced May 20, 2025)
- Flow: AI-augmented video (announced May 20, 2025)
- Imagine 4: AI image generator (announced May 20, 2025)
- Apple: Silicon/Siri
- where is Apple headed? October 14, 2025. Link here.
- xAI's Grok -- x (Twitter)
- Saudi Arabia: Humain
- UAE - Abu Dhabi: G42
- Anthropic:
- Claude
- Opus - large
- Sonnet - medium
- Haiku - small -- launched October 15, 2025. Link here.
- rolls out financial AI for Claude -- July 15, 2025
- Claude Opus 4.5, November 24, 2025, valued at $350 billion.
- Meta: Meta AI (Llama) -- WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, Facebook; large data centers to be tracked here.
- Hyperion: Louisiana
- Prometheus: Ohio
- Microsoft: Copilot
- Salesforce (CRM): Einstein (BYOLLM). Link here.
Locations:
- Stargate (tracked here):
- Abilene: largest AI data center in the world;
- UAE: largest AI data center outside the US.
- Fairwater (link here):
- Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, Fairwater #1
- Atlanta, Georgia, Fairwater #2
- Meta: Meta AI (Llama) -- WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, Facebook;
- Hyperion: Louisiana
- Prometheus: Ohio
Main pages:
Overview posts.
Major Updates / Overview / Reviews
November 17, 2205: Jeff Bezos announces new AI company -- Project Prometheus. Link here.
November 5, 2025 -- AI, LDCs, LLMs, Nvidia, and CoreWeave, it's all here: link here.
November 1, 2025 -- chatbots and all that jazz: link here.
Updates
November 17, 2205: Jeff Bezos announces new AI company -- Project Prometheus. Link here.
November 6, 2025: huge announcement for Google -- developed its own AI chips in-house -- "Ironwood" -- link here.
- also received contract with Apple for Google Gemini to integrate with Apple's Siri for AI
- $1 billion per year (Apple pays Google $1 billion / year)
October 7, 2025: IBM - Anthropic partner. Link here.
October 6, 2025: OpenAI partners with AMD. Huge story. AMD surges 30% at moment deal is announced.
August 11, 2025: Saudi steps in to provide lifesaving financial support.
August 11, 2025: Nicole Nguyen in The WSJ.
July 24, 2025: Pennsylvania AI hub -- Blackstone to invest $25 billion; RBN Energy on power needs for AI data centers.
July 22, 2025: a fair amount of headlines coming out the Startlink story with regard to Oracle. And here.
July 15, 2025: Trump -- Pennsylvania to become AI hub; CoreWeave.
July 15, 2025: Anthropic rolls out financial services on Claude
July 14, 2025: Mark Zuckerberg / Meta makes huge announcement.
June 13, 2025: beyond Moore.
May 21, 2025: Stargate data center, Abilene, TX, updated.
May 21, 2025: large AI centers -- $30 billion in Nvidia blades.
May 16, 2025: Anthropic main page.
September 10, 2023: the fourth industrial revolution.
August 29, 2023: Nvidia and Google will partner on generative AI.
Original Post
Before
we get started, "everybody" seems to be talking about "AI," or
artificial intelligence." In fact, it's not a two-word phrase but rather
a three-word phrase about which we are talking. The first word is the
most important of the three and it is seldom used. The full three-word
phrase is "generative artificial intelligence."
What do quantum mechanics and generative artificial intelligence have in common.
No one understands either.
Richard Feynman, from the NY Times, September 7, 2019:
“I think I can safely say that nobody really understands quantum mechanics,” observed the physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman. That’s not surprising, as far as it goes. Science makes progress by confronting our lack of understanding, and quantum mechanics has a reputation for being especially mysterious.
What’s surprising is that physicists seem to be O.K. with not understanding the most important theory they have.
Quantum mechanics, assembled gradually by a group of brilliant minds over the first decades of the 20th century, is an incredibly successful theory. We need it to account for how atoms decay, why stars shine, how transistors and lasers work and, for that matter, why tables and chairs are solid rather than immediately collapsing onto the floor.
It seems I've read a gazillion articles on "AI" and it's immediately obvious that the writers have no idea what they are writing about when they're writing about the "application" that Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Greg Brockman, et al, developed. That's not a "ding" on the writers. It's simply that incredible what Sam Altman and the others did.
This blog is IN PROGRESS and I may or may not ever finish it. We'll see. But if you want to skip ahead and see where I'm headed, google generative linguistics Chomsky Bertrand Russell Turing.
Technically, all you really need to do is google generative linguistics Chomsky.
Where do we start? We start with the definition off generative. Below, the second definition:
Now it gets fun.
Norm Chomsky: wiki.
Bertrand Russell: wiki.
