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Weights are worth far more than data centers.

• jimbokun 3mo ago
  Why? Seems like open weight models keep catching up to state of the art within a few months, at most. Doesn’t seem like much of a moat to me.
  • twoodfin 3mo ago
    If/when open-weight models do catch up (i.e. become the dominant product in demand), Amazon transitions from a middle-man to the supplier with the best economies of scale. Great business either way. You could even draw an analogy to Linux/OSS & the origins of AWS. They started as basically an infra middle-man for other people’s technology. But as the core tech commoditized, they transitioned into selling their own higher level services at scale—like Bedrock.
• lelanthran 3mo ago
  > Weights are worth far more than data centers. I dunno, hey. After all, I can't distill my competitors datacentres :-)