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[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago

They have no “moat”

Pretty sure one of the goals with this BS is digging a moat by choking off competitors access to hardware. Shame that LLMs are actually getting smaller and faster for the same (dubious) effectiveness, e.g. Qwen 3.5. It pulls extra duty as a Ponzi scheme and potentially forcing most consumer compute into their datacentres (a much better, if more evil business plan than AI) for that sweet rentseeking continuing revenue.