ChatGPT has taken the world by storm. But the artificial-intelligence chatbot has also needed enormous cloud computing resources to do so. The same will go for any rival hoping to overtake it, such as Claude from the startup Anthropic, and other ventures looking to capitalize on “generative A.I.," which Bill Gates recently called "every bit as important as the PC, as the internet."
While users are enthralled by A.I. programs that can answer questions and generate images in seconds, "the compute costs are eye-watering,” noted Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT developer OpenAI, in December.
