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by dumberquestions 22 hours ago
AI would be profitable today if all companies weren't constantly racing to train the next biggest model, that's the whole reason the numbers look whack.

This is basically the first time we're seeing true competition between massive tech companies, the previous state had each one of them clinging on to their own separate monopoly.

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And if the training stops, the existing LLM models will fairly quickly decay in usefulness.

There's no free steady-state of high-quality current models for this; it's either keep investing forever or deal with models that stopped gaining new information in 202X.

What do you mean? Why would new information be important ? Most models know how to search and summarize information
Why would they decay in usefulness?