Most of the time the companies say the layoffs are because AI is doing people jobs, but the reality is that making things that use AI is just a lot more expensive. And enabling employees to use AI more than the free tier is really expensive too. So, they need to cut cost elsewhere to balance it out.
Clay Magouyrk (CEO):
Larry, in order to pay for these datacenters we might need to cut up to 20,000 jobs.Larry Ellison:
Cut 30,000.Clay Magouyrk:
But Larry, 20,000 would be more than…Larry Ellison:
“Zorg, you’re a monster.”
“…I know.”
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of the human mind.
Maybe they should consider spinning off Paramount or not buying WB instead firing people.
Oracle Employment Numbers Trend (Approximate) 2025: 162,000 2024: 159,000 2023: 164,000 2022: 143,000 2021: 132,000 2020: 135,000 2015: 132,000 2011: 108,000
What do AI and toilet paper have in common? I wipe my ass with both.
Fuck AI.
And enabling employees to use AI more than the free tier is really expensive too.
The cost is upfront for training the LLM, then they have to sell the end product to us (to recuperate costs, start training the next 500B model, etc.), so giving their employees access to a higher tier of LLM is relatively minimal cost, inference isn’t exactly cheap, but I think they could afford to give their employees access to higher models.
But, this is Oracle I guess.
