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0 pointsdanielmarkbruce1y ago0 comments

It creates the opposite of a flywheel effect for you. It creates a leapfrog effect.

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AI might cannabalize a lot of first gen AI businesses.

What Meta is doing is borderline market distortion. It's not that they have figured out some magic sauce they are happy to share. They are just deciding to burn brute force money that they made elsewhere and give their stuff away below cost, first of all because they can.

anon3738391y ago

I know, and it's beautiful to see. Bad actors like "Open"AI tried to get in first and monopolize this tech with lawfare. But that game plan has been mooted by Meta's scorched-earth generosity.

jstummbillig1y ago

Meta has actually figured out where the moot is: Ecosystem, tooling. As soon as "we" build it, they an still do whatever they want with the core/llm, starting with Llama 4 or any other point in the future.

The best kind of open source: All the important ingredients to make it work (more and more data and money) are either not open source or in the hands of Meta. It's prohibitive by design.

People seem happy to help build Metas empire once again in return for scraps.

boringg1y ago

To be fair MSFT investments with credits into OpenAI is also almost market distortion. All the investments done with credits posing as dollars has made the VC investment world very chaotic in the AI space. No real money changing hands and the revenue on the books of MSFT and AMAZON is low quality revenue. Those companies AI moves are overvalued.

danielmarkbruceOP1y ago

It's strange you are downvoted for this. It is a legitimate take on things (even if it is likely not accurate as far as intent is concerned).

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boringg1y ago

AI might cannabalize a lot of first gen AI businesses.

jstummbillig1y ago

anon3738391y ago

I know, and it's beautiful to see. Bad actors like "Open"AI tried to get in first and monopolize this tech with lawfare. But that game plan has been mooted by Meta's scorched-earth generosity.

jstummbillig1y ago

The best kind of open source: All the important ingredients to make it work (more and more data and money) are either not open source or in the hands of Meta. It's prohibitive by design.

People seem happy to help build Metas empire once again in return for scraps.

boringg1y ago

danielmarkbruceOP1y ago

It's strange you are downvoted for this. It is a legitimate take on things (even if it is likely not accurate as far as intent is concerned).

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