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Lorkki | 3 days ago

IBM owned literally the whole market on computers at a time when computing equipment was prohibitively expensive and centralised.

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oblio|3 days ago

IBM was a special case, I'm not sure there were many markets so thoroughly cornered like IT was for about 3 decades. I guess telephone (AT&T) was similar.

Lorkki|2 days ago

I think there's similarity to the dynamic too. Not many instances have the means at this time to produce LLMs from scratch and operate them at scale.