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$6,500,000,000 dollars for ... what, exactly?

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• mrweasel 1y ago
  55 engineers and the opportunity to be associated with Apple products via Jony Ive. Honestly with OpenAI buying Windsurf, and now this (whatever this is) I'd say that the company is in trouble and is now desperately attempting to buy it's way into relevancy. Either OpenAI wants to become a developer tools company (which can't be that profitable), or a consumer goods company. Trying to become the next Apple is really the only way to ever make the money they spend back. OpenAI is a failing company. They made the first move, that will be their claim to fame. Sadly it turned out that what they are doing isn't that hard to replicate, just hard to profit from.
  • dbbk 1y ago
    I honestly think that Google is going to be the long term winner. They were behind at first, but now their models are the state of the art, and cheaper, and crucially Google as a whole makes enough money to float the business.
    • mrweasel 1y ago
      Google and maybe Microsoft. Both have enough money to just outlast anyone else. LLMs aren't a bad idea, but they are at the current cost, that's just less of an issue to Google and Microsoft.