You're reciting a bunch of absolute numbers, without any sort of context at all. $5M isn't the same for every company. For example, in 2020, it seems High Flyer spent a casual $27M on a supercomputer. They later replaced that with a $138M new computer. $5.5M sounds like something that could be like a side-project for a company like that, whose blood and sweat is literally money.
> But this degree of failure raises lots of questions whether such companies can ever be trusted.
This, I agree with though. I wouldn't trust sending my data over to them. Using their LLMs though, on my own hardware? Don't mind if I do, as long as it's better, I don't really mind what country it is imported from.
