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by RollingRo11 373 days ago
I remember being 13 years old and stepping into an Amazon Go store in Seattle. Little me lost my mind. I think I walked in and out of the store like 5 times just to see the amazon charge. Sucks that half of the magic was a lie.

Shame to see another project fall to the strategy of AI = "actually indians". I wonder how many other companies have engaged in this stuff.
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pyman 373 days ago
See: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240611122778/en/Bui...
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calmbell 373 days ago
Depends on how you define real. I would argue that GPT-2 was a real LLM and it almost certainly cost a lot less than a billion. I'm sure there are much better examples.
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pyman 373 days ago
Can you imagine Builder.ai using a model that argues with their clients or discriminates against them? I don't think so. GPT-2 is like bringing a knife to a gunfight in 2025.

If you want to compete with the likes of GPT-4, Claude, or Gemini today, you're looking at billions, just for training, not counting infra, data pipelines, evals, red teaming, and everything else that comes with it.

Builder.ai wasn't able to use GenAI to actually build software. And when the money ran out and no model was ever announced, investors lost trust and clients lost patience.

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