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Big tech wants to make AI cost nothing

LLMs are being commoditized

In fact, smartphones - quite possibly the most technologically advanced hardware of all time - became commoditized to the point where just about anyone in the third world could buy one for under $20, reducing profit margins for manufacturers to razor thin levels. This means that (assuming scaling laws persist, and more tokens can be sourced) the next generation of multi-modal hyperscale transformer models which are currently being trained will dwarf what came before… and it’s quite possible newcomers like OpenAI and Anthropic might not even be able to contend with whatever larger companies like Meta release next. Another possible reason is that there simply is no real value in having a second-place general purpose LLM, particularly for a company like Meta which users may not trust enough to rely on for subscription API-based access.

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