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Simon Kriss

Simon Kriss

Oct 6, 2026

22:09
... regardless.
22:10
You know, because you still need some training in f- so some training in a compute, yeah.
22:14
Um, look, the, the main difference is clearly a, a closed model or a commercial model is just that.
22:20
Some company has been funded themselves and they've built a model and now they are selling it, and the way in which they sell it is one token at a time.
22:32
Um, you know, hello, ChatGPT, Claude, Mistral, all of those.
22:37
Then there's a group of people that are building open weight models, and what that means is when you, when you build a model, it has weights and it has representations.
22:47
The representations, if you like, are the data, and the weights are how that data is connected together, right? So as a very simple example, the dog chased the...

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40:46
Hmm.
12:05
What's your response to that? Is there a different perspective we should be taking here?
12:10
Look, I'm a little bit pro data centre and I get that they might look ugly in your suburb if you're in your suburb.
12:19
And occasionally when they need to fire up their generators, that is a diesel generator that's running.
12:25
But they're doing a lot of work in renewables.
12:28
They're building data centers with water treatment plants.
12:32
But the very much publicized power and data usage for me is a little bit of a furphy, to use another good Aussie phrase.
12:41
There was a study just done recently by Mandela, and they discovered that we use more electricity in Australian shopping centers than we do in Australian data centers.

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31:16
or
11:51
And then I speak it back in English and it's got to do the opposite to get
11:55
to.
11:55
It's got to do the opposite.
11:56
And actually, that's the harder piece right now.
12:00
So you have to kind of Franken stack a bit because I'm working with a client that wants to.
12:05
Franken stack.
12:06
Yeah.

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24:24
Yeah, exactly.

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