279: The Cloud Pod Glows With Excitement Over Google Nuclear Deal

Welcome to episode 279 of The Cloud Pod, where the forecast is always cloudy! This week Justin, Jonathan and Matthew are your guide through the Cloud. We’re talking about everything from BigQuery to Google Nuclear power plans, and everything in between! Welcome to episode 279! 

Titles we almost went with this week:

• AWS SKYNET (Q) now controls the supply chain
• AWS Supply Chain: Where skynet meets your shopping list
• Digital Ocean follows Azure with the Premium everything
• EKS mounts S3 
• GCP now a nuclear
• Big query don’t hit that iceberg 
• Big Query Yells: “ICEBERG AHEAD” 
• The Cloud Pod: Now with 50% more meltdown protection
• The Cloud Pod radiates excitement over Google’s nuclear deal

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Follow Up

00:46 OpenAI’s Newest Possible Threat: Ex-CTO Murati

• Apologies listeners – paywall article. 
• Given the recent departure of Ex-CTO Mira Murati from OpenAI, we speculated that she might be starting something new…and the rumors are rumorin’. 
• Rumors have been running wild since her last day on October 4th, with several people reporting that there has been a lot of churn. 
• Speculation is that Murati may join former Open AI VP Bret Zoph at his new startup.  
• It may be easy to steal some people, as the research organization at Open AI is reportedly in upheaval after Liam Fedus’s promotion to lead post-training – several researchers have asked to switch teams. 
• In addition, Ilya Sutskever, an Open AI co-founder and former chief scientist, also has a new startup.  
• We’ll definitely be keeping an eye on this particular soap opera. 

2:00 Jonathan – “I kind wonder what will these other startups bring that’s different than what OpenAI are doing or Anthropic or anybody else. mean, they’re all going to be taking the same training data sets because that’s what’s available. It’s not like they’re going to invent some data from somewhere else and have an edge. I mean, I guess they could do different things like be mindful about licensing.”

General News

4:41 Introducing New 48vCPU and 60vCPU Optimized Premium Droplets on DigitalOcean

• Those raindrops are getting pretty heavy as Digital Ocean announces their new 48vCPU Memory and storage optimized premium droplets, and 60vcpu general purpose and CPU optimized premium droplets. 
• Droplets are DO’s Linux-based virtual machines.  
• Premium Optimized Droplets are dedicated CPU instances with access to the full hyperthread, as well as 10GBps of outbound data transfer.
• The 48vCPU boxes have 384GB of memory, and the 60vCPU boxes have 160gb.

6:02 Justin – “I’ve been watching the CloudPod hosting bil