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This WAN Show episode covers NVIDIA's class action lawsuit over AI training data, Intel's teased B770 GPU, and various tech topics including Facebook's copyright issues, gaming trends, and flying car developments. Linus and Luke also discuss LMG's fluctuating viewership, badminton club updates, and answer community questions about business partnerships, gaming recommendations, and subscription fatigue.
Storage Review Breaks Pi Calculation Record
Storage Review has reclaimed the pi calculation world record by computing 314 trillion digits using a Dell server with dual AMD EPYC CPUs and 2.5 petabytes of SSDs. The achievement took 110 days and focused on power efficiency. Linus jokes about the massive NAND flash usage and suggests Storage Review should go for 369 trillion next, then 420 trillion, before calling it complete.
- Storage Review calculated pi to 314 trillion digits using a single 2U Dell PowerEdge R7725 server
- The system used dual AMD EPYC 192-core CPUs and forty 61.44TB Micron SSDs (2.5 petabytes total)
- The record run took 110 days with a focus on power efficiency
- Linus jokes that Storage Review caused the NAND flash shortage by using so much storage
" You should be upset because it turns out Storage Review were the ones responsible for the NAND flash shortage crisis. "
" I think what we're going to do about it is encourage them to go for 369. Be a man. Beat your own record. And then do it twice. Beat your own record again with 420. "
NVIDIA Sued Over AI Training on YouTube Videos
Three YouTubers including H3H3 Productions have filed a class action lawsuit against NVIDIA for allegedly using their YouTube videos without permission to train the Cosmos AI model. The creators argue NVIDIA bypassed YouTube's protections to download video files, violating DMCA anti-circumvention rules. LMG videos were found in the datasets, but Linus says he won't join the lawsuit, citing his own company's imperfect use of copyrighted material and preferring a live-and-let-live approach.
- NVIDIA allegedly bypassed YouTube protections to download videos for AI training despite YouTube only allowing streaming
- The lawsuit focuses on huge AI datasets containing YouTube links and timestamps rather than the videos themselves
- Several LMG videos were found in the training datasets from different channels
- Linus acknowledges his company also uses copyrighted material imperfectly, like memes and music clips in videos
" I am mostly a live and let live kind of guy. I'm a little bit peeved. I don't like this. I would like to be compensated when my copyrighted intellectual property is used. However, I also have the self-awareness to recognize that not every way that I've ever used any copyrighted piece of material has been 100% perfect. "
" Someone at some point is going to train their video model on my videos. Like, do I, does it make a difference to me if it's NVIDIA versus someone else? "
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