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Copying is not frowned upon in the LLM ecosystem. This is its very reason of existence.
by prmoustache 3mo ago
Copying is not frowned upon in the LLM ecosystem. This is its very reason of existence.
- piker 3mo agoPerhaps, but "we run the exact same business as Anthropic and OpenAI to the pixel at 0.1% the price" is going to raise eyebrows.
- fortylove 3mo agoWhy?
- piker 3mo agoFor fear that the data they're entrusted with will be copied or that there is some nefarious reason like state sponsorship that makes the activity economical?
- Daishiman 3mo agoOnce the OpenAI/Anthropic-driven hype dies down people with decision-making power will be taking a look at the numbers and look at real productivity metrics. And they'll see it makes little sense to pay so much when competition is around and similarly good.
- fttt 3mo agoThis is already happening. Firms aren’t going to wait - their valuations are driven by it. So too is the compensation of those running them.
- dymk 3mo agoEyebrows will raise at Anthropic / OpenAI, perhaps. Why are they charging 1000x more for the exact same business? The 'distillation is theft!' shtick won't last long. In fact, unlike Anthropic/OpenAI, these Chinese labs actually had to pay for that 'stolen' training data.
- piker 3mo ago> Why are they charging 1000x more for the exact same business? The implication they want to avoid, I'm suggesting, is because the CCP isn't plugged into and funding those entities' activities at a loss. Or they're lying about ZDR, etc. etc.
- oh_no 3mo agoGLM 5.2 and Kimi 3 both had huge API pricing jumps (GLM most expensive chinese model, by a lot, then then Kimi 3 a lot higher than that). the cost advantage is rapidly decaying. the oft-cited cost per task makes Kimi look good vs Anthropic but even, or slightly vs OpenAI
- bko 3mo agoHow to make an apple pie from scratch with no copying: Step 1: invent the universe
- piker 3mo agoThe baker is not asking you to trust them with your entire knowledge base in exchange for an apple pie.
- ForHackernews 3mo agoWhy do you trust Sam Altman?
- piker 3mo agoI don't trust him or Dario frankly, but I don't run a Fortune 500 company. They obviously do.
- abdullahkhalids 3mo agoFunnily enough, you will have to pretty accurately copy the laws of our universe to make an Apple pie. Even small changes will change the properties of atoms, and hence all of chemistry and biology. And there won't be any apples or wheat.