Posted by haunter 11 hours ago
These things just take a lot of time, there are tremendous headwinds to fight, and the US government + US media increasingly seems unable to see through projects past the next election cycle.
Lots of billionaires in the US, got that way, by exporting all their production to China. Because they did it, lots of lower-tier people had to do the same, or go out of business.
Since we worship billionaires, that little bit never seems to get mentioned, as it makes them look bad.
The only cure is to cost some of those billionaires money.
Ain't gonna happen.
But that was the entire point of the Trump tariffs? Or am I missing something here?
If "can't have been made in any capacity in Texas" is your criteria that might be pretty difficult.
They also use Anthropic internally (code/marketing/sales) which runs their models on Cerebras so they also seem to be agnostic so runs on the same Apple hardware.
Either of these devices (per watt of computing power) could become a home appliance pretty easily.