[eiek]

They’re playing games behind the scenes to massage and manage their earnings.

China is gonna win long term there’s no doubt. The fact that the American firms haven’t created immense escape velocity despite the disparity in spending is quite telling.

[zozbot234]

The nice thing about hosting inference locally is that you can be sure you're not being rug-pulled in any way. This doesn't really help China 'win' though, it's just freeloading on them making their weights openly available.

[onlyrealcuzzo]

The good thing is, we're only 2.5 years away from a top of the line MacBook having better local inference than CC Opus does today.

That's more than good enough if you're actually getting what CC Opus is capable of.

I've never been so excited for the future.

[HDBaseT]

Glad someone is excited for the future. I haven't been excited for the future for almost 5 years.

Most people aren't looking optimistically into the future. Everything keeps looking down, everything keeps getting worse. I'm 22 but feel like everything good was before me. I'm glad I got to grow up before cooperate greed killed everything.

[wyre]

How expensive is ram and SSDs going to be in 2.5 years? A top of the line macbook is already $10k and thats when Apple was able to purchase ram and SSds for a fraction of what is being sold for now.

[vrganj]

Let's hope so.

If the Chinese model of open weights wins, AI will benefit everyone.

If the American model of closed weights wins, AI will benefit a few rich guys and everyone else will be thrown into precarity.