alt Hacker NewsMoves like this should be illegal.
It's becoming increasingly clear that OpenAI is going to get lapped by Google on technical merits. So this is the "code red" solution? Supply shenanigans?
They are getting beat in the developer market by Anthropic. And getting beat on fundamental tech by Google. This is a company whose ostensible mission is to "benefit all of humanity" ...
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What are the chances the deal doesn’t go through because OpenAI fails to find enough money? Between Google, other labs and China the risk of commoditization is climbing and so why would investors continue to throw money at them? Kind of the same problem people are starting to bring up regarding Nvidia order book no ?
> Moves like this should be illegal.
Should be, as in, new legislation should criminalize it? What's the generalized principle? Or should be, as in existing law should cover it? And if so, what law / how?
Seems like it is, but the question is whether the current Justice Department will do anything about it.
As in producers not over-producing RAM should be illegal? A presumably short-term price spike in RAM of all things is a non-issue. It is a luxury good that only a very small number of people care about and there is no reason to think this blip is going to last. Apple did stuff like this all the time at their high point in the late 2000s and early 2010s, and it would happen often in other markets. The world is not static and sometimes the situation changes and lots of supply is soaked up.
This is a desperate move by a company that is in huge trouble.
I paid almost every month since gpt4 came out but mine lapsed when Gemini was released and I haven't even thought of logging in.
The subscribers are exactly the users who would migrate to Gemini. Then your left with the prospect of this giant free chatgpt user base setting money fire.
Wouldn't be shocking at all looking back 10 years from now that maybe the path that Altman stays fired would have been the better path.