You forgot no energy and deep resentment for anybody earning more than 85k/y (except politicians).
Worst part is Europe was near the top of nuclear and microchips ~30 years ago, and France had bleeding-edge AI.
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Worst part is Europe was near the top of nuclear and microchips ~30 years ago, and France had bleeding-edge AI.
- Commissioner for Digital and Frontier: Henna Virkkunen (JOURNALIST, experience PR) [1]
- Executive Vice-President for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy: Stéphane Séjourné (LAWYER, politics, but hey, his mom was a telephone switch operator!) [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henna_Virkkunen
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%A9phane_S%C3%A9journ%C3%...
inb4 Sacks is MD/lawyer... but he is a Stanford econ graduate, was PayPal COO, is tech VC, etc.
TBF the same used to happen like ~15 years ago at the peak of blogspam. It was only a little bit more work.
Is this just open weights or also open source/data?
https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-20260423#pr...
After complaints the cached read is not listed anymore in that page, you have to click one by one. All providers for DeepSeek V4 Flash charge ~$0.02 while DeepSeek provider is $0.0028. For coding this is huge as caching often gets in the range of 90 to 99%. But OpenRouter messes your caching so don't use it. And it seems to be a VC-backed closed middle-man company, not open source or open anything.
Good corporate tech blogs at least give something useful or insightful for the reader and only after that they dare plug their product/service near the end.
IMHO this is just AI influencer blogspam.
> After the AI agent indicated its malicious intent, a silent consensus was reached in the IRC channel to waste the AI agent's tokens, as well as the cost of AWS resources.
> It got me thinking, though--the most successful founders do not set out to create companies. They are on a mission to create something closer to a religion, and at some point it turns out that forming a company is the easiest way to do so. [1]
The second they get a hold of the market, Chinese Big Tech will be as bad or worse than US Big Tech.
We're lucky to have DeepSeek.
https://simonwillison.net/about/#disclosures
"I have not accepted payments from LLM vendors, but I am frequently invited to preview new LLM products and features from organizations that include OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and Mistral, often under NDA or subject to an embargo. This often also includes free API credits and invitations to events."
But I'm totally unbiased on my gut-feeling posts, trust me bro.
-- AI influencers.
It made sense for people doing proper and fair AI breakdowns waiting on an embargo, but now it's just slop I don't trust anymore.
It's like we are 19th century farmers and suddenly there are the latest John Deere equipment available for huge amounts of money raising yields 100x. Most of us can't afford the equipment and will be pushed out.
And look who Anthropic is partnering with: the absolute worst of Wall St. like Apollo.
"SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P" (bloomberg.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48405718
Ars used to do deep insightful articles a couple of days after the news but today it's just regurgitated blogspam that is 2 days old news. And way more political. It's sad.
And they have a massive amounts of TPUs. And yet... their models are way behind.
While we are discussing this, I strongly believe we should hedge against the concentration of power that is happening today.
Please join/help open source groups doing small + local or distributed models. There's a lot to do. Join Discord/IRC servers and organize.
Open³: weights - source - training data.
Because the real world is not a Hollywood movie. An LLM could try to do something along the lines if either it gets fine-tuned to do it, or somebody instructs it to do it.
I see extremely more likely a small group of humans using a powerful LLM to "take over" critical parts of the world economy. But it wouldn't be like pressing a button. I'm talking of NSA/CIA/Pentagon/Wall St. kind of evil people. And I bet they would do it surreptitiously.
I'm convinced these CEOs have "AI psychosis" [1].
LLMs are extremely powerful pseudo-AI and will bring a pseudo-singularity, but they are not true AI [2] and a human at the wheel is still needed for the foreseeable future. The impact is still scary if a tiny fraction of humans are augmented 100x or 1000x. But it ain't no standalone Skynet.