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And as DeepSeek showed, it isn't that hard to distill the great large AI model into something smaller that isn't controlled by a large AI company, making owning the compute made to build the model worthless.
Yeah, I'm really wondering what the investment bankers are thinking on this. Everything they do is replicable.
If the rent gets too high, people will switch to cheaper models even if they're marginally less effective. And once a business starts running its own AI models on its own hardware, they're definitely not going to switch to a more expensive subscription.
There will never be an AI monopoly that will make back all the money they are burning trying to make a monopoly. I honestly don't get it it at all. I feel like the world has gone mad.
They don't think, thats the problem and why we are here.
Or they are thinking really really hard and this is like many of the other articially juiced finical situations that let them rape and pillage the pockets of the average American. Just like how George sorros can flood currency values to control a market and profit off of the demise of others, I like to think every single financial crises going back 50+ years has been some kind of swindle that only the rich with enough money can benifit from.
I was just reading a summary from a book published in 2016 that talks about this: