We have an entire generation of technologists convinced that you need a monopoly for a business to be viable, so every tech company is either trying to subsidize its way into a monopoly or running a deadweight loss.…
> The state of the art models are going to get better and more expensive and smaller models are going to get cheaper. Why do you think this will be true? Right now I see the major US labs betting on gaining an advantage…
I believe this is the process that defines Julia Evans' writing (and cartooning)!
Is there any country where it is?
I've got news for you there. The Biden administration tried to take the first real antitrust action in decades and then suddenly a bunch of tech oligarchs switched from supporting Democrats to supporting a convicted…
To me the biggest (but not only) issue is that blindly connecting sensitive tools to 3rd party services has been normalized. Every time I hear the word "claw" I cringe...
They could be VC-backed and selling at a loss to grow market share
Are any inference providers currently making profit (on inference, I know google makes money)?
We have an entire generation of technologists convinced that you need a monopoly for a business to be viable, so every tech company is either trying to subsidize its way into a monopoly or running a deadweight loss.…
> The state of the art models are going to get better and more expensive and smaller models are going to get cheaper. Why do you think this will be true? Right now I see the major US labs betting on gaining an advantage…
I believe this is the process that defines Julia Evans' writing (and cartooning)!
Is there any country where it is?
I've got news for you there. The Biden administration tried to take the first real antitrust action in decades and then suddenly a bunch of tech oligarchs switched from supporting Democrats to supporting a convicted…
To me the biggest (but not only) issue is that blindly connecting sensitive tools to 3rd party services has been normalized. Every time I hear the word "claw" I cringe...
They could be VC-backed and selling at a loss to grow market share
Are any inference providers currently making profit (on inference, I know google makes money)?