gonna have to outsource that to local talent like al-Sharaa

That’s a heck of a euphemism for the US abandoning their bases.

I wonder what lobbying conglomerate he’s angling to lead in his next chapter

Completely agree, and now it’s just hip to say how much you hate AI. This kind of performative action doesn’t really accomplish anything, but it lets people feel good about themselves and gain social acceptance. Actually building an alternative takes work. The whole Linux analogy is very apt here because we’ve always had alternatives to corporate offerings, but most people don’t want to invest the time into learning how to use them.

I’d argue it’s inevitable for the simple reason that the whole AI as a service business model is a catch 22. Current frontier models aren’t profitable, and all the current service providers live off VC funding. And if models become cheap enough to be profitable, then they’re cheap enough to run locally too. And there’s little reason to expect that models aren’t going to continue being optimized going forward, so we are going to hit an inflection point where local becomes the dominant paradigm.

We’ve seen the pendulum swing between mainframe and personal computer many times before. I expect this will be no different.

It’s really unfortunate how a lot of people have a knee jerk reaction towards anything LLM related right now. While you can make good arguments for avoiding proprietary models offered as a service, there’s really no rational reason to shun open models. If anything, it’s important to develop them into a viable alternative to corporate offerings.

Seems to me there’s a huge amount of incentive for Chinese companies to pursue these things since China isn’t investing in a massive data centre build outs the way the US is. And their chips are still behind. Another major application is in robotics where on device resources are inherently limited. The only path forward there currently is by making the software side more efficient. It also looks like Chinese companies are embracing the whole open weights approach and treating models as shared infrastructure rather than something to be monetized directly.

And local models have been improving at a really fast pace in my opinion. Stuff like Qwen 3.5 is not even comparable to the best models you could run locally a year ago.

It is insane to think that a system based on equality and worker ownership isn’t the fix to corruption.

Right, so far no American company managed to make any actual profits of selling LLMs as a service, and the cost of operating the data centres is literally an order of magnitude higher than the profits they pull in. And the kicker is that if models get efficient enough to bring the costs down, then they become efficient enough to run locally. So the whole business model fundamentally doesn’t make sense. Either it’s too expensive to operate, or nobody will want to use it as a service because running your own gives you privacy and flexibility.

seems like I hit a sore spot there

Yup, that’s also a mechanic that’s being increasingly used. And with more money available and cheaper credit stimulates demand for goods, services, and assets. So you end up with increased amount of money chasing a relatively stable supply, which ultimately pushes general price levels higher, hence the process is inflationary.

They’ve also massively invested in renewables and nuclear.

bye princess

🤣

I’m not here to amuse you. If you don’t find something interesting then just move on. Nobody cares what you you choose to watch or not, and the world doesn’t revolve around you. Work on your narcissism.

Yeah, I have one on lemmy.ml and one on lemmygrad.ml cause I made them before federation was a thing.

Some of us actually want to understand things below superficial level I guess. 🤷

the depressing part is that /s is actually needed

They lost control of the narrative eventually there, but not from the very start. And it’s not like Vietnamese were able to put their own message out at the time.