What he did with her is again whatever. It’s the fact that she is connected to China and that might cause problems because of the export bans. Even if his relationship with her was platonic it would still be a problem.

“Meets with Chinese spy” is just as bad of a headline as " fools around with Chinese spy"

They don’t give a shit about that. He made the stock price move the wrong direction and that is unforgivable.

I mean it’s just a front end for Gemini now isn’t it?

That might be true but only if there is fewer humans at some point.

You can’t just keep widening roads. There are 50 percent more humans in my city then 25 years ago. If you reduce traffic more people will buy cars.

So at some point something has to give.

The Internet isn’t static or ‘forever’ like people like to joke. AI companies are slurping up data and they need somewhere to keep it. Hard drives are already increasing in price and they still need to store long term things like all the books they are destroying.

LLMs that are wide spread and accessable to the general public is basically 3 years.

No one in the general public who uses chatgpt or googles AI overview gives a shit when Google published attention is all you need.

The argument would be that they provide " higher quality, more targeted views" which is probably correct.

Most people will fold and get the account, what’s one more " sign in with Google" on top of the 1000 other accounts.

I mean sure. It’s still early days for AI models. They spent years boiling the frog that is the search user. They can take a hit for a while before Gemini starts taking money to talk or more importantly not talk about something.

I never really understood the appeal of these.

They are nifty tech but new black rectangle that does the same shit as the last black rectangle has long ago stopped interesting me.

I now just get medium priced black rectangle every four or five years and ignore everything in between.

I mean the reason they use the screens is more a cost thing.

LG and Samsung are pumping out millions of touch screens a year. The cost for a single screen is less than 100 bucks and it’s off the shelf. The alternative is spinning up or contacting production lines for those buttons or knobs each requiring design and QC and of course production.

The screens are just so so much cheaper.

Even if openai tanked tomorrow it would just be bought by Microsoft and become copilot AI.

The failure of the company is bad for current investors but it’s not a public company and as others have mentioned there is not yet enough instability in the rest of the industry. Google is still trucking along without issue even if they don’t make the news and people are still giving Muse access to all their shit.

That’s like 1 million per job created! A steal for sure!

It may not be in the article, but Micron’s stock is up 550%, he’s definitely celebrating.

“is it still available?”, " will you deliver?“, “can you ship it”, " will it work with my random thing”, " I see you put the entire manual in the post, but do you have the manual?", “I have to pay rent will you take 1 dollar instead of 500? Also can you deliver”, “I can get this for one dollar on AliExpress why don’t you just give it to me for free?”

Ah I didn’t realize that had ended.

Welp I’m sure there will be others trying to get into the game but none likely as lucrative.

It’s both. The LLM scrapers are now relentless. They are also closing the door so they can sell the data to Google.

Yeah, you’re right. Tones of people set up their phones without an apple or Google account and then only use the baked in browser and calculator.

I can run LLMs locally on my desktop tower. I can run CAD Software and create things. There is a large number of tasks my desktop can do that a phone can’t for a number of reasons not the least that using a phone without their app stores is becoming increasing difficult.

Just because you might just use yours as a thin client for Chrome doesn’t make me wrong.

For most people it is. If you removed Internet access from the device what do you think people would say?

9 out of 10 apps are just web apps with a launcher and stop working the moment you disable data.

That shift has already happened.

People on this forum trend to use personal computers but most people now only use phones. They might have a laptop provided by work but many don’t own one at all.

The push to “the cloud” happened ten years ago. The people around here are the exception.