They spent a lot of money to find a lot of shallow gradients. Everyone else can climb those same gradients by putting in a little bit of money. Every single funded vertical and research org is proving this. Players in third place and below are incentivized to release their weights to develop an ecosystem around them. Meta and Tencent get to ensure the technology doesn't evolve beyond them by commoditizing their compliment and releasing stuff like Llama and Hunyuan for free.
Furthermore, OpenAI hasn't stumbled across a defensible moat. There's zero switching cost to move to another product, and they don't control any major panes of glass to stay as a default.
If OpenAI doesn't find a moat soon, they're gonna be cooked. The value of foundation models will plummet.
They won’t because they drove away all their actually talent to Anthropic and elsewhere in pursuit of the dumbest version of SV product dev and are now forced to do benchmark hacking in a paper thin ruse to convince the market they still have the talent to compete. The o1 series models are unusable in practice while Claude and the new MCP protocol work is becoming the basis of a bunch of actually functional applications.
I wish HN would stop devolving into Reddit. This comment is the same boring "joke" that has been repeated 100 times on every platform, and keeps being posted for karma. It adds nothing to the conversation.
If you joined 8 months ago it might be hard to recognize. I've been on HN for more than a decade and the quality of discourse has drastically lowered in quality especially in the last 3-4 years. This is a problem with the broader web, not just HN. Tech / startups is now a mainstream topic that attracts a lot of people who are not really in the weeds and are just able to write surface level comments.
Regarding the name, open is just a word. Apple doesn't sell apples. The company never promised to open source every model, only to make them accessible to the public, so you're arguing semantics that lead to no improvement in the technical conversation.
100% agree. If you’ve been here for any length of time you’ve seen it, and nothing is added by the repetition.
Perhaps we should just string-sub to IAnepO or some such, so we can engage with the models and company as it is, without dealing with the (empty) semantics of the name.
They spent a lot of money to find a lot of shallow gradients. Everyone else can climb those same gradients by putting in a little bit of money. Every single funded vertical and research org is proving this. Players in third place and below are incentivized to release their weights to develop an ecosystem around them. Meta and Tencent get to ensure the technology doesn't evolve beyond them by commoditizing their compliment and releasing stuff like Llama and Hunyuan for free.
Furthermore, OpenAI hasn't stumbled across a defensible moat. There's zero switching cost to move to another product, and they don't control any major panes of glass to stay as a default.
If OpenAI doesn't find a moat soon, they're gonna be cooked. The value of foundation models will plummet.