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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:
Those standalone models were released as toys by companies pumping tens of billions into the unsustainable "foundation models," who bet that - despite the worst unit economics of any techn in living memory - these tools would someday become economically viable, capturing a winner-take-all market with trillions of upside. That bet remains a longshot, but the littler "toy" models are beating everyone's expectations by wide margins, with no end in sight:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00259-0
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