Comment by notatoad

i remain convinced that google doesn't actually want anybody to use these models. they want to announce things, for the sake of their share price and their promotions.

but they don't want to share their compute with us. giving those resources to their ad targeting algos is more profitable than renting them to us. so they make it as hard as possible. they tried as hard as they could not to release a new pro model at all, but now that fight has been lost they at least need to make sure we don't use it.