While speaking at Stanford University, Schmidt, former Google CEO boldly advised young and aspiring entrepreneurs to create a replica copy of TikTok stealing copyright music. If the video does not become viral, try your hand on an alternative video. This is the approach of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. If per chance, they are successful, they hire a battery of lawyers to clean up the mess. However, if the product is a flop, who bothers about copyright violations? This is the modus operandi in Silicon Valley. It raises the issues of ethics and IPR. There are discussions about the work culture of tech industry. This comment adds to such discussions. He also held the work-from-home policy tells upon the results of the startups. Later he diluted the remarks about work hours.

It is argued that IPR creates a monopoly. Knowledge is not created in isolation. It has links with existing body of knowledge. Monopolising it creates a calamity. The counterargument is that it takes a lot of capital and mental investment in creating innovation, and hence these costs must be recovered, and must accrue to those who facilitated this process. However, in medical emergencies, such as the Covid pandemic, we can think of relinquishing the IPRs for the broader good of humanity.

Big Tech are planning to make large investments into Nvidia-based data centers, which may cost as much as $300 billion to build. The data center with in-demand AI chip H 100 will make a winner.

In future, big tech plans to make their own chips — Google making TPUs, Microsoft Azure Maia 100, Amazone Trainium chips and Facebook Artemis (surpassing their previous Meta Training and Inference Accelerator — MTIA).