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The reasoning centers on the massive capital... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/a-lot-of-people-ask-why-we-don-t-manage-our-own-gpus-people-imagine-that-when-your-company-gets-big-3bqmrvfit og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/3BQMRVfit.png og:image:alt: a lot of people ask why we don't manage our own GPUs people imagine that when your company gets bigger you automatically bring more things in house but there has been a lot of capital thrown at companies building inference with the expectation that the world will need a lot of it (and it's not easy at all) these companies cannot serve openai or anthropic models so they're looking for open source/private model workloads and the risk of under-building is way worse than over-building so at some point it's likely there will be too much supply we have a real shot at being these companies' biggest customer given how much volume we're already doing and this is an amazing position to be in og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- [dax](https://daily.dev/sources/thdxr) [Read on](https://api.daily.dev/r/3BQMRVfit) Feb 22•From x.com  dax @thdxr a lot of people ask why we don't manage our own GPUs people imagine that when your company gets bigger you automatically bring more things in house but there has been a lot of capital thrown at companies building inference with the expectation that the world will need a lot of it (and it's not easy at all) these companies cannot serve openai or anthropic models so they're looking for open source/private model workloads and the risk of under-building is way worse than over-building so at some point it's likely there will be too much supply we have a real shot at being these companies' biggest customer given how much volume we're already doing and this is an amazing position to be in Comment Bookmark Copy Share your thoughtsPost [](https://daily.dev/sources/thdxr) [dax](https://daily.dev/sources/thdxr "https://daily.dev/sources/thdxr") 5 Followers • 3 Upvotes #### Would you recommend this post? 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