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Yeah they are both fighting for survival. No surprise really.

Need to keep the hype going if they are both IPO'ing later this year.

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The AI market is an infinite sum market.

Consider the fact that 7 year old TPUs are still sitting at near 100p utilization today.

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How many IPOs can a company really do?
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As many as they want. They can "spin off" and then "merge" again.
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What happened to you?
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AI fried brains, unfortunately.
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I mean, he has a point it’s just not very eloquently written.
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I empathize with the situation, no elegance from them, no eloquence from me :)
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What's funny is that most of this "progress" is new datasets + post-training shaping the model's behavior (instruction + preference tuning). There is no moat besides that.
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"post-training shaping the models behavior" it seems from your wording that you find it not that dramatic. I rather find the fact that RL on novel environments providing steady improvements after base-model an incredibly bullish signal on future AI improvements. I also believe that the capability increase are transferring to other domains (or at least covers enough domains) that it represents a real rise in intelligence in the human sense (when measured in capabilities - not necessarily innate learning ability)
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What evidence do you base your opinions on capability transfer on?
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>There is no moat besides that.

Compute.

Google didn't announce $185 billion in capex to do cataloguing and flash cards.

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Google didn't buy 30% of Anthropic to starve them of compute
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Probably why it's selling them TPUs.
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> is new datasets + post-training shaping the model's behavior (instruction + preference tuning). There is no moat besides that.

sure, but acquiring/generating/creating/curating so much high quality data is still significant moat.

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