> cant run without massive GPU clusters.
How far back into the history of computing do people who keep repeating shit like that know about? God.
Look at the thing in your fucking hand. Now go back just 20 years and see how things were.
How far back into the history of computing do people who keep repeating shit like that know about? God.
Look at the thing in your fucking hand. Now go back just 20 years and see how things were.
Just because models and GPUs will be more advanced in the future doesn’t mean we need to let OpenAI and anthropic establish monopolies on the backs of stolen training data give unfettered access to the internet, the terminal and people’s file system while also allowing them to have limited liability protection behind the corporate veil. That’s a choice.
Exactly, again, look at what COMPUTERS THEMSELVES used to be in the 1960s/1970s.
What the "P" in the PC stood for and why it was such a big deal
I don't see any of such entity would solve that problem. The government and regulator are in OpenAI and Anthropic's pocket, and I don't trust them a single bit on coming up with regulations. The consumers don't care; they just need something smart and cheap. And the society doesn't work either: each person is too busy fighting for their own survival rather than changing the system.
There are clear anti-trust mechanisms to prevent market capture and the emergence of asymmetric power. Go back and see how much nashing of teeth Lina Khan triggered in SV when she started to enforce antitrust law and then compare it to what the Pinkerton agency was doing in the transition from the guilded age to the progressive era.
There is a vocal segment of SV that wants the return of the guilded age. Marc Andreessen as said that explicitly. Those of us in SV that value free markets and recognize that the progressive era actually saved markets from their natural tendency to self destruct when winners capture markets and destroy competition that provides the incentive to innovate and drives the price setting function for efficiency.
In other words, the aspiring founders look at Google, Facebook, Tesla, etc. and think "how can I become one of them", not "how can I be different from them"? If you can find me examples of successful startups that think fundamentally different from those big techs, I'm very happy to be wrong and be corrected here.
> In 2006, the mobile phone market was dominated by stylish flip phones, early music players, and physical keypads just one year before the iPhone changed the industry