Elon Musk envisions a future where AI takes all our jobs, leading to a 'universal high income' that allows access to an abundance of goods and services.
"Models are commodities that can be easily swapped out," said Ritwik Gupta, an AI researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. "A lot of developers are using Alibaba's Qwen3, which is powerful and flexible."
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Instead of building epic models that aim to accomplish all feats, businesses looking to cash in on the AI gold rush should consider pivoting towards focused models that are designed for specific tasks.
"There’s ones you can lease, there’s open source ones. Don’t do it." Taylor emphasized the impracticality of developing new AI models unless one belongs to a major player in the industry.
"It is a big deal-I don't want to find I have so little control I can be easily ousted by activist shareholders. That is a major concern to me..."
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LaMDA was genuinely ChatGPT before ChatGPT. It was the first properly conversational LLM that was just incredible. And you know, everyone at Google had seen it and tried it.
"This is a real downside and I'm not thrilled about it, unfortunately, I think 'No bad person should ever benefit from our success' is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on."
Two recent product releases point to this trend: OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent and Perplexity's Comet browser. The ChatGPT Agent uses a basic browser to surf the web on behalf of users, while Comet takes it further by allowing language models to access logged-in sites and complete tasks for users. Both products have not yet achieved reliable performance and currently require expensive subscription access due to their high computing needs.