1) Claude 3.5 prevented OpenAI from making big monopoly profits on LLM inference 2) Open source models like Mistral and Llama effectively prevented any regulator from controlling how people fine tuned models, and what they used them for 3) Deepseek prevented the collective west from exerting control over the creation of base models
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
2025 going to be even more wild than the last two years. Ye gads.
Hype is the fuel that bootstraps fortunes in techtopia.
Hype is the fuel that builds fortunes at the expense of the greater fool. See WeWork.
Arguably none of the magnificent seven was built on hype, other than Tesla (and even there, not sure it was).
So I think people are less distrustful of Altman when he says "thousands of days".
