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by Lorkki 109 days ago
IBM owned literally the whole market on computers at a time when computing equipment was prohibitively expensive and centralised.
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oblio 109 days ago
IBM was a special case, I'm not sure there were many markets so thoroughly cornered like IT was for about 3 decades. I guess telephone (AT&T) was similar.
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Lorkki 108 days ago
I think there's similarity to the dynamic too. Not many instances have the means at this time to produce LLMs from scratch and operate them at scale.
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