That's right but the money is given to the people who do it for $500B and there are much better ones who can do it for $5B instead and if they end up getting $6B they will have a better model. What now?
I don't know how to answer this because these are arbitrary numbers.
The money is not spent. Deepseek published their methodology, incumbents can pivot and build on it. No one knows what the optimal path is, but we know it will cost more.
I can assure you that OpenAI won't continue to produce inferior models at 100x the cost.
What concerns me is that someone came out of the blue with just as good result at orders of magnitude less cost.
What happens if that money is being actually spent, then some people constantly catch up but don't reveal that they are doing it for cheap? You think that it's a competition but what actually happening is that you bleed out of your resources at some point you can't continue but they can.
Like the star wars project that bankrupted the soviets.
Ty. I had this vague memory of some "Star Wars laser" failing to shoot down a rocket during Jr. I might be remembering it wrong. I can't find anything to support my notion either.
I think there was a brief revival in ballistic missile defense interest under the W presidency, but what people refer to as "Star Wars" was the Reagan-era initiative.
The $500B wasnt given to the founders, investors and execs to do it better. It was given to them to enrich the tech exec and investor class. That's why it was that expensive - because of the middlemen who take enormous gobs of cash for themselves as profit and make everything more expensive. Precisely the same reason why everything in the US is more expensive.
Then the Open Source world came out of the left and b*tch slapped all those head honchos and now its like this.
No, its just that those people intend to commission huge amount of people to build obscene amount of GPUs and put them together in an attempt to create a an unproven machine when others appear to be able to do it at the fraction of the cost.
- The hardware purchased for this initiate can be used for multiple architectures and new models. If DeepSeek means models are 100x as powerful, they will benefit
- Abstraction means one layer is protected from
direct dependency on implementation details of another layer
- It’s normal to raise an investment fund without knowing how the top layers will play out
Hope that helps? If you can be more specific about your confusion I can be more specific in answering.
