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by windexh8er 26 days ago
They already are. Altman is basically begging the US to buy into OAI, that's just the start. Both OAI and Anthropic are going to have to go down this path or their financials will never work out. Open local models are where the enterprise will need to go for any of this to be cost feasible, but we can almost guarantee this will be a battle nobody using AI will have asked for. You can thank Dario and Sam for the dystopian future that will pad their bottom line!
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no-name-here 26 days ago
> Altman is basically begging the US to buy

Where did you hear this? All the results I can find say the opposite that the US would buy anything.

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windexh8er 23 days ago
It was national news [0].

[0] https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-proposes-handing-tru...

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no-name-here 26 days ago
If grandparent commenter means in the sense of being an incredibly heavy user of AI, that does not seem to be initiated by Altman or any AI lab as far as I can tell - by January, the Secretary of War (for example) had already announced that he was directing "the Department of War to accelerate America's Military AI Dominance by becoming an 'AI-first' warfighting force across all components"[1], which in turn was based on Trump's executive order 3 days after taking office (January 23, 2025) ordering the federal government to accelerate AI use[2].

[1] https://media.defense.gov/2026/Jan/12/2003855671/-1/-1/0/art...

[2] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202500170/pdf/DCPD-...

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dominotw 26 days ago
there will always be higher valuation for company inventing model+1 . no one wants to use latest_model -1 when their competiton is using latest_model.
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windexh8er 26 days ago
If neither model+1 or model-1 are providing tangible value to the business does anyone really care, though? At a certain point nobody believes Chicken Little.

I get it. These models can be powerful. But will they be useful is a different question.

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dominotw 25 days ago
right. thats the real question. Are models improving meanginflully for ppl to pay a premium for latest model or are they just a commodity.

i would argue that no one knows answer to that yet.

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randsorex 24 days ago
I am at 73% use on the week for all models and 2% use on the week for Fable.

Personally, I am good with the current version of Opus. It is already so strong for my uses that I can't really tell much difference with Fable.

For me, current Opus represents the model strength that can be commoditized. I am not splitting the atom that I need something much smarter.

I have gone completely risk off in the market the last month because of this. Commoditized at the low end and regulation is not going to become less of a problem as the frontier models get stronger.

I suspect 10 years from now we will look back at trillionaire Elon as an obvious tell we are the peak.

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NonHyloMorph 26 days ago
If you're assumptions turned out right what would be the benefit to preassume such an undertaking to succeed? As a warning of what to oppose, it imho conveys too much defeatist suggestiveness. Viewed as expression of a latent submissive desire (a perspective that might be offending, my apologies, but hopefully justifyable as food for thought/curiosity) a kent brookman "I for one welcome our new insect overlords" kind of vibe.
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