> IMHO, they're applications. IMHO, it's hazy. I finally built a new PC [0] with the intention of actually playing with AI stuff instead of just shitposting a

> IMHO, they're applications. IMHO, it's hazy. I finally built a new PC [0] with the intention of actually playing with AI stuff instead of just shitposting about the dumb things AI Chatbots do. As another commenter responded, Stable Diffusion strikes me as a platform. I feel like OpenAI is trying to position themselves as a 'platform', and ChatGPT is like versions of windows...almost [1] LLaMA is amazingly ambiguous; frankly at the moment it is, to me[2], at least the easiest to 'hack'; I will say that LLaMA models feel more like 'applications' but there is still an overall 'platform'. > I think it remains to be seen if AI is one of those industries that benefits from network effects or not. I think it can. Aside from the aforementioned Stable Diffusion (and also speaking from experience with it,) having a 'cookbook' is handy to get started. Network effects are huge in that regard. [0] - 10 years since my last fresh build, 5+ years since my last true upgrade. [1] - It is worth noting people complaining about things 'breaking' when new models get released