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malka1986 | 1 month ago

> Isn't there pretty good indications that the chinese llms have been trained on top of the expensive models?

So what ?

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antonvs|1 month ago

It would mean that their costs are lower than they would be to achieve the same capabilities otherwise.

fc417fc802|1 month ago

Well it raises an interesting conundrum. Suppose there's a microcontroller that's $5.00 and another that's $0.50. The latter is a clone of the former. Are you better off worrying only about your short term needs, or should you take the long view and direct your business towards the former despite it being more expensive?

blitzar|1 month ago

Suppose both microcontrollers will be out of date in a week and replaced by far more capable microcontrollers.

The long view is to see the microcontroller as a commodity piece of hardware that is rapidly changing. Now is not the time to go all in on betamax and take 10 years leases on physical blockbuster stores when streaming is 2 weeks away.

Ai is possibly the most open technological advance I have experienced - there is no excuse, this time, for skilled operators to be stuck for decades with AWS or some other propriety blend of vendor lock-in.

FridgeSeal|1 month ago

Well the company of the former microcontroller has gone out of their way to make getting and developing on actual hardware as difficult and expensive as possible as possible, and could reasonably accused of doing “suspect financial shenanigans”, and the other company will happily sell me the microcontroller for a reasonable price. And sure, thy started off cloning the former, but their own stuff is getting really quite good these days.

So really, the argument pretty well makes itself in favour of the $0.5 micro controller.

ForHackernews|1 month ago

You're asking whether businesses will choose to pay a 1000% markup on commodities?