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Hm, China is also beginning to invoke export controls to restrict homegrown models: https://www.reuters.com/world/beijing-is-looking-curbing-ove...
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I wonder how much of what China is currently able to do it because USA is such a mess.

The whole article is kind of ridiculous of course, and is also heavily fixated on OpenBrain, whatever that is.

I also wonder about the economics of running an AI lab attached to an existing large tech company (such as Meta or Tencent) instead of a dedicated company like OpenAI. It's starting to seem like it's not possible to charge enough for current-gen AI usage, with current-gen inference technology, in order to turn a profit, i.e. nobody is able or willing to pay at least marginal cost for tokens.

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Hm, Anthropic reported it was close to operating profit last quarter: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mind-blowing-growth-is-about-to-...

And a third party estimates it will exceed $1B profit in Q3: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/anthropic-3q26-profit-...

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> This seems way more accurate. Up until early 2026.

Which is funny, because they launched the AI 2027 site in 2025 and it caused a lot of people to believe the end was near.

They claimed to have built a complicated model, but several people showed that it didn't matter how much you changed the inputs, it was designed to converge on the answer they wanted.

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