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Sure, whatever. The moat is still the cost.

• turnsout 2y ago
  I hear ya. But with great open source models like Llama 3.2 dropping near-daily, I wonder if/when we’ll reach a point where free models are good enough for 99% of tasks.
  • dartos 2y ago
    Llama is NOT open source. It’s freeware. We can’t reproduce it and its license has commercial restrictions. That being said, most models are based on llama, so it may seem like a lot of movement is happening, but it’s not, really. RWKV and deepseek are the only LLMs that’re fully open that I’m aware of. If meta decided to stop releasing llama, that’s that.
    • n_ary 2y ago
      If llama achieves valuable strides, it will definitely be put behind paywall. The play has always been the same, release something semi-polished until you gain mass adaptation, then build a paywall infront when people are reliant on it and attrition is expensive. Look at the twitter API for example, or reddit or what not.
• __loam 2y ago
  When there's like 5 essentially interchangeable products from your competitors, you don't have a moat.
  • dartos 2y ago
    We don’t know that they will be interchangeable forever. Just because they share a near identical interface does not mean they will always have identical capabilities