alt Hacker NewsThe secret to success for OpenAI, Anthropic and labs is the vision that they saw 10 years back and kept working on it. We're in awe of how models like GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 are performing today, but it's important to understand that they've been working on this before we knew about AI.
The next big thing is Robots and some stealth company building today is going to be a trillion-dollar giant in few years time.
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That’s just hindsight. People work on a lot of different things. Breakthoughs and cumulative improvements reaching a tipping point might happen or not.
Like fuzzy logic before it, this arm of AI development will most likely hit a wall, find where it is useful, and then become cheap and embedded all over to the point where we won't even recognize it as AI anymore.
> they've been working on this before we knew about AI
Don't confuse AI with LLMs. "We" know about AI for a long time. We even have a term for when AI fail expectations, AI winters.
> The next big thing is Robots
IMHO, robots won't become a thing until they're running local AI, at which point they will become the thing that crushes humanity.