Comment by lifeisstillgood

2 years ago

And as a side note, this is why LLMs are such a huge sugar rush for large companies. The performance of LLMs is directly correlated to capital investment (in building the model and having millions of GPUs to process requests).

Software rarely has a system that someone cannot under cut in their bedroom. LLMs is one such (where as computer vision was all about clever edge finding algorithms, LLMs are brute force (for the moment))

Imagine being able to turn to your investors and say “the laws of physics mean I can take your money and some open source need cannot absolutely cannot ruin us all next month”

That's an interesting thought, yeah. But it also limits the possible return on that capital, I think.