iLoveOncall 7 hours ago

Because the moment you slow down investing is the moment you realize you wasted all your previous investment in the technology. It's just sunk cost fallacy.

johnecheck 8 hours ago

Anybody want to summarize for those of us who don't feel like shelling out over $500/yr for a WSJ subscription?

  • edmundsauto 2 hours ago

    As the theory goes, there is a network effect forming. Early AI products with strong adoption get the users to implicitly and explicitly label data. This leads to improvements that are a moat due to “data flywheel”

    So there’s a “first mover” type advantage because you can’t get that usage data anywhere else - not even paying participants - because there exists a domain gap between offline and online measurement.

    There is a reasonable counter argument of “the bitterest lesson” which says all that matters is the improvements in foundational models.

  • DeepYogurt 7 hours ago

    the tl;dr is "reasoning models".

    • iLoveOncall 7 hours ago

      And to be more specific, the fact that reasoning models have outputs orders of magnitude longer than other models.

      It writes more text so it spends more compute.