alt Hacker News> Does anyone think we need a Mythos level model to plan a road trip, or give someone tips on making a cake recipe?
This is starting to look at a lot like Intel vs Arm from the last era.
The Fable & Mythos are starting to look like a giant Xeon, while the smaller lighter models are starting to look like a lot of tiny ARM chips which sip on power instead.
The risk is the same as what Intel had. There is a group who are pushing them to go bigger and with a resource no limit approach, who have a lot of dollars to push you that way.
Follow them and they lead you to a pile of money, but then you risk something like Apple Silicon happening.
Something which got better because of efficiency & continuous improvement, not neutered due to it.
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Except aren’t these Chinese models having to go big too? While they might not be Mythos/Fable sized, a trillion plus parameters is hardly a local server or even desktop to mainframe style jump
> The risk is the same as what Intel had. There is a group who are pushing them to go bigger and with a resource no limit approach, who have a lot of dollars to push you that way. Follow them and they lead you to a pile of money, but then you risk something like Apple Silicon happening.
The problem was that Intel stopped making things faster and better, and shifted to wearables and mobile chips instead of investing in their hard-tech strategy that had worked for decades.