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Comment by nojvek | Hacker News Reader

I'm a big fan of various AI companies taking different approaches. OpenAI keeping it close to their hearts but have great developer apis. Meta and Mistral going open weights + open code. Anthropic and Claude doing their thing.

Competition is a beautiful thing.

I am half excited and half scared that AGI is our generation's space war.

I hope we can solve the big human problems, instead of more scammy ads and videos.

So far AI has been more hype than substance.

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>OpenAI keeping it close to their hearts but have great developer apis

Interesting. Aren't all the APIs basically the same? Provide a prompt, get a response.

I'm surprised there's room for some APIs to be significantly better than others, but then I've only used the openai one.

My personal theory is that this is all because Zuckerberg has a rivalry with Elon Musk, who is an AI decelerationist (well, when it's convenient for him) and appears to believe in keeping AI in the control of the few. There was a spat between them a few years ago on Twitter where Musk said Zuckerberg had limited understanding of AI tech, after Zuckerberg called out AI doomerism as stupid.

It's a silly but spooky thought that this or similar interactions may have been the butterfly effect that drove at least one of them to take their company in a drastically different direction.

There's probably all sorts of things that happen for reasons we'll never know. These are both immensely powerful men driven by ego and the idea of leaving a legacy. It's not unreasonable to think one of them might throw around a few billion just to spite the other.

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