Comment by watwut

5 days ago

Big players subsidizing is what kills medium and small players which then kills competition. What follows is monopoly.

Big players operating at loss to distort the market is not a good thing overall.

The medium and small players are literally just distilling the larger models.

It's not the smaller players spending billions on training data.

  • No, the medium and small players are the Mistals, DeepSeek and H Company of the world, with their own models using quirky optimisation techniques to be able to compete.