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> high as the second best general purpose model

According to benchmarks which are gamed to the extreme these days. Trusting them blindly isn’t exactly rational either. They don’t necessarily translate that well to real world tasks

It’s obviously not “distilling” as such but there are reasons why Chinnese models are consistently several months behind OpenAI/Antropic

Without Google’s funding its not obvious i DeepMind would have went anywhere.

Unless the moved to US for funding while keeping a back office in the UK.

It’s strange to expect anything significant to come out from Europe when VCs there are either very risk averse and/or don’t have enough cash to begin with. It’s not like government or EU funding can replace that since its almost always wasted or missdirected

> models performed much worse for the skills I'm using

Hard to believe unless your are doing something much more complex than the things you listed

Realistically you certainly don’t Anthropic’s models for those things and can get something for a fraction of the price on OpenRouter/etc.

You can use several times cheaper models than Claude as well, its not like you need anything big to handle all the uses cases listed above

Are you not confusing per capita wealth/income with something else?

Russia is also technically 5x richer than Norway in that sense. Of course they have 25x more people..

Well Norway was massively richer per capita than the US until quite recently and still currently is by a slight margin.

> if you get colon cancer you get $30,000 for treatments

And… what if its not enough?

But yeah, extreme inefficiency and inflated costs due to poor regulation seems like the main issue in the US.

It’s not however obvious that less regulation would solve that, i.e. you have countries like Switzerland or the Netherlands with entirely privatised healthcare (more so than in the US) yet they have quite strict regulation and price controls and are doing just fine.

That’s a solved problem, though? Just adjust the fine based on the company’s revenue

I think there is almost zero overlap between the premium laptop market (Surface laptop) and Chromebooks.

They did that. But when the AI craze hit turned that all the 8GB base model Macs didn’t have enough space for even basic models (in addition to the 1-2 electron apps you can run simultaneously).

Of course seems like local AI is more or less a flop in the consumer market at least?

But still IMHO even for general use macos with 8GB is almost unusable unless you use it like an Ipad.

Anthropic is neither a monopoly nor has a dominant market position. Generally standards applied to companies like that are very different due to good reason.

All countries in Europe are certainly capitalist, though (by any definition that define US as capitalist).

And situation in countries in France where the average retiree now somehow has higher disposable income than those still working is far from ideal.

> Other systems

Such as?

The conditions for retirees relative to those still working in the USSR were fairly decent (by the end). But its not exactly fair since the demographic situation there was much better than it is now in most developed countries.

And then all capitalist countries in Europe these days (which coincidentally are all capitalist) generally have similar retirement systems to the US.

I can’t was Netflix on Amazon’s streaming app or the other way around? So yeah, its the same

Anthropic isn’t handing out free PCs or forcing people to use them.

So if Claude code didn’t communicate with Anthropic’s server using a well defined public api but some obscure undocumented binary format it would be fine?

Or should every app/service be required to expose documented APIs?

That really seems not like the target market for a product like this, though.

So its unlikely a launch like this could be successful and would just result in the new Steam pc/console being dead on arrival..

Maybe there is. But isn’t Tesla way, way behind Hyundai at this? It’s not even close? Yet Hyundai’s stock is still very cheap..

It can happen. Its unlikely Tesla will catch up to Waymo any time soon though. Yet valuation for Tesla (relative to how much money they are making) is massively higher than Google’s. Which would make very little sense following this logic?

Historically bubbles like this hardly ever lasted this long, though

Audi and Mercedes? (Well in Europe where the highend Teslas barely had any sales anywya, at least). Porsche is probably a tier or so above

This kind of maybe made sense for a while their revenue was growing at a very fast pace but now that its stagnant/falling they are no different to any other car company.