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netdevphoenixtoday at 8:22 AM3 repliesview on HN

Not exciting for anyone directly or indirectly invested in a frontier lab or its partners. And that is a lot of people, including you.


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gruturotoday at 8:31 AM

No time like the present to pull out and reduce your exposure. I brought this up in my employer's forums 4 months ago and honestly it's been clear even before then. In particular, the upcoming IPOs of both oAI and Anthropic will likely be disastrous for the public - the floor is falling from under them and I don't know if they can be scrappy and work with fewer resources - their internal culture may not support this. We all knew in our hearts they're a commodity - just see how easily you can switch between the 2 of them - and now there are 10 more options costing a fraction.

When Xi Jinping did the announcement of their open weights push, they might as well cancelled their IPOs....

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zozbot234today at 9:40 AM

The frontier labs will do well if they pivot their offering towards more capable, larger-scale models that are inherently harder to both train and deploy for commodity suppliers. Their existing investments in gigawatt-scale datacenters are quite optimal for this. "Commodity" inference need not comprise the whole market.

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goolztoday at 12:44 PM

Sometimes fear can be quite exciting.