Comment by tyleo

4 hours ago

I almost feel like there's some sort of paid campaign going on in Hacker News promoting the Chinese/open models. I feel like every day I'm hearing about how the frontier labs are dead but your experience is the same as mine. My company pays for Claude AND Codex but we never really use the open models for anything critical.

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dgellow  3 hours ago

Doesn’t matter if your company pays for Claude, Anthropic and OpenAI valuations and expenditures commitment requires them to win the vast majority of the market to make economical sense. And the Chinese competition makes that very unlikely, to say the least. They likely won’t disappear fully but their “free” lunch as the AI darlings is done, on paper. Will be interesting to see how they adapt

felixgallo  3 hours ago

It's absolutely a campaign. Every time anyone says anything about Claude, immediately and inorganically there's a bunch of people claiming to be biochemists who are constantly shut down by their work, people saying that they run out of tokens instantly even on Premium, people saying they get even better results on their GTX 4050, and people saying that Grok is better, or OpenAI is better. It's probably several different campaigns each run by different tranches of the competition. Reminds me of the good old days in which every criticism of bitcoin was immediately jumped on by nine or ten pretend Venezuelans who asserted that it was the only thing permitting their family to evade government currency controls.