[nradov]

Model rankings are irrelevant. No one cares.

The differentiating factor will be access to proprietary training data. Everyone can scrape the public web and use that to train an LLM. The frontier companies are spending a fortune to buy exclusive licenses to private data sources, and even hiring expert humans specifically to create new training data on priority topics.

[aworks]

Including paying poets and other experts by the hour to improve the models https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/brendan-foody/