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Who's going to invest in AI (building foundation models) if some other company can come and dethrone you in a snap?
by checker659 2y ago
Who's going to invest in AI (building foundation models) if some other company can come and dethrone you in a snap?
- goosejuice 2y agoI guess we'll find out once someone gets dethroned. As far as I'm aware that hasn't happened.
- karamanolev 2y agoOpenAI invested in non-open foundation models and DeepSeek came and (approximately) dethroned them. I don't agree with the conclusion of the article, but the statement "open-sourcing a model lets another company dethrone you" is also not great. I'd stand behind "in the world of AI in 2024/2025, regardless of whether the model is open or not, someone is likely to come and dethrone you in a snap".
- gs17 2y ago> DeepSeek came and (approximately) dethroned them The parenthetical should really be "(temporarily, approximately)". I wouldn't count OpenAI out until we see how o3 compares, assuming they actually make it available this week.
- karamanolev 2y agoOh, agree. The throne has a new king every day. Sometimes a past king, sometimes a brand new one. The temporary nature of it was implied.
- deadbabe 2y agoThere is no throne, it’s a game of musical chairs.
- moduspol 2y agoMaybe "dethrone" isn't the right word, but if a startup on the other side of the world, without the best hardware, can create something comparable and cheaper to build/run just four months after the release of the top company's flagship model: I don't understand the OpenAI business model. I'm with you. How are they going to make money?