Hope you all enjoyed having fun with LLMs, but they are keeping the God's machine to themselves.
One word: China. To combat the extreme distillation attacks on their servers and just keeping several steps ahead US labs have to optimize for businesses and intelligence agencies at the expense of consumers.
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openai's lead codex lead has hinted the new models will be available sooni suspect the distilled models for vibesloppers will roll out fairly quickthey can keep the $200/prompt god-slop model behind closed doors, i'm not doing theoretical physics
>>108566449It wont save them. At least, theyll lose their normie customer base when local/cheap models are good enough.For plenty of shit theyre already better
>>108566449never understood why they'd sell access to the models to others.use them yourself and start ruling the world, wtf, why would you share?
>>108566732it's easier to get rich during a gold rush by selling pickaxes to suckers than by using the pickaxes yourself
>>108566798only as long as the gold rush is mostly hype.
>>108566732dario's been asked about this a few times t bh his answer makes sensehe's a former medical guy and very interested in things like drug discoveryand they just spent $400m on a drug discovery ai labbut he never plans to actually produce any drugs himselfthe business model for these companies is going to be about invention and discovery and then licensing deals to actual companies that do the final approval / manufacturingthey'll basically own all the important important ip going forward
