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Assertion Supported
Ethan He: Storing and moving video datasets costs millions per month
“So, so it's like just storing, storing the network, those costs, it's just I guess it would be a few millions per month to just storing everything, not to mention the GPU costs.”
Ethan He Jun 1, 2026 ▶ 35:49 Inside xAI: Building Grok Imagine in 3 Months, Videogen vs World Models, and Video Agents— Ethan He
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Anthropic model fine-tuning will be offered through AWS Bedrock
“They are partnered with AWS, and it's going to be in bedrock. As far as I know, I think that's true.”
Alistair Pullen Aug 22, 2024 ▶ 31:10 Is finetuning GPT4o worth it?
Assertion Supported
Eskildsen: AWS S3 Only Achieved Strong Consistency in December 2020
“S III only became consistent in December of twenty-twenty.”
Simon Eskildsen Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 17:19 Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
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Eskildsen: Oregon GCP-to-AWS latency is roughly 14ms due to Seattle routing
“Like U.S. East, the Google, like the GCP and AWS data centers are like within a millisecond on each other on the public exchanges. But in Oregon, uniquely the GCP data center sits like a couple hundred kilometers, like east of Portland and the AWS region sits …”
Simon Eskildsen Mar 12, 2026 ▶ 21:27 Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
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