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Lol at "On secondary markets, investors have propelled the company to a $1.5 billion valuation."
by geori 1mo ago
Lol at "On secondary markets, investors have propelled the company to a $1.5 billion valuation."
- jasonjmcghee 1mo agotypo? or did an editor see the original and say "trillion must be a typo"
- irthomasthomas 1mo agoI imagine the logprob of b is much greater than t in this context for most models. So 'trillion' gets corrected to the more likely 'billion'.
- zarzavat 1mo agoFreudian slip.
- womitt 1mo agoIt's for the second grade htf algos
- mimischi 1mo agoMaybe the editor is from Germany DACH, or similar?). A trillion is a billion in that language.
- BoingBoomTschak 1mo agoCue the Dr. Evil.
- busyant 1mo agoFor my amusement, I recently asked ChatGPT whether OpenAI and Anthropic were worth their proposed valuations or whether they'd be "kneecapped" by the Chinese models etc. It gave me a long, detailed explanation which boiled down to, "Maybe Anthropic will be worth the 1T market cap if xyz happen, but unless something fundamentally changes w/ OpenAI, they are NOT worth anywhere near 1T" Here's a quote from ChatGPT: "And if I had $1 million that had to be invested today in either OpenAI at $852B or Anthropic at $965B, with a 5–7 year lockup: I'd put the entire $1 million into Anthropic. Not 60/40. 100/0 Anthropic."
- lukan 1mo agoFixed it seems.
- flohofwoe 1mo agoMost likely a typo (fixed by now), but in some (most?) non-English languages billion is the correct word for 10^12 instead of 10^9, usually the error happens when translating from English though, not into English.
- HeavyStorm 1mo agoNever heard of this... Any examples?
- MandieD 1mo agoGerman: 10^6 is "Million," 10^9 is "Millarde," and 10^12 is "Billion"
- dotwaffle 1mo agoHence why in financial markets, a 10^9 billion is called a "yard" (from milliarde)!
- flohofwoe 1mo agoIn German, 10^9 is a 'Milliarde', and a 'Billion' is 10^12. The Wikipedia article has a nice map what countries use which convention (search for "Current Usage"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
- neysofu 1mo ago