
Artificial intelligence has a supply problem. As the world gorges on(狼吞虎咽;大量消耗) tokens(令牌;计费单位), the snippets of text by which the output of a large language model is counted, it is running short of them. Weekly token consumption quadrupled between January and March, according to OpenRouter, a marketplace for AI models, partly because of the growing use of coding tools.(长句:引用数据说明消耗激增) The industry cannot keep up.
人工智能遇到了供应问题。当世界狂吞token——即大型语言模型输出的计费文本片段时,它正在变得短缺。AI模型市场OpenRouter的数据显示,由于编码工具使用增加,1月至3月间每周token消耗量翻了两番。整个行业无法跟上需求。
At model-makers and tech giants, rationing is afoot(正在进行;在酝酿中). Anthropic, maker of Claude, recently adjusted its terms to deter(阻止;威慑) heavy use during peak hours. Amazon says that “capacity constraints” have limited its growth. Sarah Friar, the finance chief of OpenAI, developer of ChatGPT, has said the company is not pursuing every opportunity because it does not have enough processing power (or “compute”). It recently scrapped its video-generation model.
在模型制造商和科技巨头中,配给制正在实施。Claude的开发商Anthropic最近调整了条款,以阻止高峰时段的密集使用。亚马逊表示“容量限制”制约了其增长。ChatGPT的开发商OpenAI的财务主管Sarah Friar曾表示,公司没有追求所有机会,因为它没有足够的处理能力(或“算力”)。它最近取消了其视频生成模型。
The consequences of the supply crunch could be far-reaching(深远的;影响广泛的). A world of scarce compute(算力;计算能力) will shape the economics of AI, changing everything from the allocation of profits to the incentives to use the technology.
供应短缺的后果可能影响深远。一个算力稀缺的世界将塑造人工智能的经济学,从利润分配到使用该技术的动机,一切都将改变。
The invisible RAM
看不见的随机存取存储器