There’s been a massive leak of data pertaining to the “great Chinese firewall” like a month ago or something. You might want to look into that.

It really seems like they’re grasping at straws trying to make LLMs profitable

Nothing looks burnt here, just heat marks, which would be totally expected after a few decades if the appliance heats a bit during normal use.

Capacitor like these rarely fail for no reason and if it was subject to over voltage you’d probably have a lot of other things fried, they’d be some of the last things I’d check.

I’m surprised people here actually believe Microsoft’s claim.

First of all, we can easily imagine that the higher ups in the firm are strongly pushing their teams to adopt IA and said teams are likely to give them highly inflated numbers just to appease them.

Then the higher ups have plenty of incentives to further increase that imaginary number to pitch to investors:

After all, Microsoft is an AI peddler, not only in end user products but also in infrastructure. They want investors and customers to believe in AI to push their goods, and for those that already believe in it, they want those to see that Microsoft is pushing ahead of the trend rather than falling behind in the “AI revolution” race.

I want to know how many people got shot while driving and then had a fatal car accident