It’s a lot easier to say what something is not than what it is.
His comments now are really sounding a lot more like sour grapes from someone who is ultimately behind in this race.
When was the last time he launched something truly new and innovative that isn’t just a copycat? Genuinely asking.
I used to pay a lot of attention to him but he’s like the Jim Cramer of AI. Always wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr0GiSgUvPU https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42817089
Their breakthroughs can be copied, and probably surpassed by someone else. Could be Meta, could be another company in China.
But companies like Meta, OpenAI, Google and MS is still in a far better position to monetise their AIs. They have the brand, the customers, the data centres. You could have the best model in the world and it’d mean nothing if you can’t run it and sell its results on a large scale.
From what I’ve seen the people within these companies know that they’re not always gonna be ahead. They know that the models they’re developing now will be outdated very quickly. So the game isn’t really about always having the best model. It’s about how their model integrates with other services and apps that people are using. It’s about having the data and data centers to train a new world class model when a new AI architecture comes along. The model can always be switched out for something better when it comes along.
