Necessary?

Well, the performance of larger models is better, so there's a demand for larger models.
That's kind of orthogonal about whether or not there should be a demand.

That's not necessarily true in the slightest.
If it is, they won't be able to hide that- they're a publicly traded company. And lying about it is literally a federal crime.

More likely, they're talking about the 650 million MAU that Gemini has.
They claim that the AI search results only take 10x the power as a regular search result, which means the model that produces those is absolutely microscopically tiny.
That would make sense if its mostly just fed a context of search results and snippets and asked to summarize them.

Their SOTA model will take many hundred times more power than that.

No. Google has a paid LLM service akin to ChatGPT.

The AI search gadget will be a very small model (distilled from a larger model) since it'll need relatively little intelligence, since it'll be fed with search results and page snippets to formulate its blurbs.

The real demand comes from Gemini, with its very expensive model and 650 million MAU- and an independent revenue stream.

It's kinda funny watching the forums flood in posts from people so insecure over this that they deny the truth in front of their very eyes- that every single fucking 20-something-year-old with a phone is using this shit. And a frankly astonishing amount of them are paying for it.

At first, I figured it was pure cope. Now I'm wondering if it has progressed to honest delusion.

Ya, I mean why would the growth of a consumable resource be capped below the available atoms in the universe? /s
I keep hearing about this overpopulation- I had no idea it had gotten that bad.

Netflix and YouTube both use AV1, which is royalty free.

Woosh! Answer: Almost anything that calculates numbers, unless it uses a non-standard binary representation for the floating point numbers ;)

2.

Did that... somehow prove to you that sex was binary?

it is demonstrably, objectively, and simply unarguably not.
Deviations are rare, but to quote someone smarter than you- decidedly non-zero.
Sex is merely a phenotype. Biology will offer you no absolutes in this department.

This is separate from the conflation of sex and gender, though.

Gender identity is a tough problem from a public policy perspective. A lot of nuance is required to discuss it with any kind of intellectual honesty.

Incorrect. Somewhere around 19% of revenue is used to service Government debt. This is certainly an appreciable number, but you said, "taxes merely..." and that is simply wrong.

I think you actually just missed all of the context.

Ivermectin is absolutely used in humans.
However, since this was off-label usage, ability to get your hands on it were limited.

People were then getting livestock/horse formulations from coops and veterinarians. This led to the joke about horse de-wormer- because for a while, if you were taking Ivermectin for COVID, you were, in fact, taking a horse/livestock formulation- a horse dewormer.

There's some nuance for you ;)

This is the root of why you're incorrect here and above.

The vaccine was, in fact, efficacious at stopping infection.
For breakthrough infections, it was not terrible efficacious at lowering viral load enough to tangibly affect transmission.

Current vaccines are far less efficacious than earlier ones against earlier strains, but even today's 30% is enough to materially affect the rate of spread.

Incorrect. I clicked your link, and then searched for contradictory papers using the name of yours as my query term.
It's called rigor. You don't have it, and it's why you're constantly wrong in your life.

Here is the structure for an EU act, since you apparently missed your own civics education, lol.
Enjoy your newfound enlightment.

Incorrect. See linked PDF. See header.
The recitals are part of the regulation.

Correct. That should have been clear to you in what I said.
They are not binding directives- they are for the courts to determine the spirit of the law- i.e., they are integral to its application.

You literally don't understand your own justice system- that's fucking awesome. I had suspected, but now it's clear as day for everyone to see. I thank you for that.

Apparently it's around $4 per device. The margins are thin on their low end models, and they are greedy, so I guess $4 is too much for a feature that few people care about or will notice not being available. Anyone who wants to do H.265 encoding will probably be looking at the higher end models anyway.

The real blame here is on the patent holders. AV1 is the solution for everyone else.