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Very cool, congrats on getting it to work. Just like the good old days: hardware limitations stimulate creativity, and in many ways this is the new frontier: the democratization of this tech. Anthropic and OpenAI would love to be the new IBM/Microsoft/Google but I think their cycle of ascent and descent will be a lot shorter than those other three (and those cycles were getting shorter anyway).

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Agreed - I think we're one or two (GLM/Deepseek probably)release cycles away from exactly the inflection point in the cycle you mention.

Once a certain baseline capable model is open and available (hardware non-withstanding, I know a 128 mac/spark is expensive now, but they don't need to get faster - just cheaper), there's no putting the toothpaste back in the tube (I hope).

It is incredible how fast these open models are improving, I think Anthropic really messed up here, they missed their window of opportunity for an IPO because they got greedy. In the last three months there have been a whole raft of major open model releases and it does not look as if they're slowing down, besides that, the smaller models are getting more and more capable.

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