Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
by fl0id on Thursday July 24, 2025 @06:46AM
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That’s just a general explainer of subscription models. As of right now VC money is necessary for just existing. And they can never stop training or researching. They also constantly have to buy new gpus unless there’s at some point a plateau of ‘good enough’
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Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
by vidarh on Thursday July 24, 2025 @08:13AM
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The race to continue training and researching, however, is drive by competition that will fall away if competitors also can't raise more money to subsidise it.
At that point the market may consolidate and progress slow, but not all providers will disappear - there are enough good models that can be hosted and served profitably indefinitely.
Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
by sfmz on Thursday July 24, 2025 @09:17AM
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Seems like there can never be good enough models; the user will want it up-to-date models with respect to news and culture.
Re:AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
by vidarh on Thursday July 24, 2025 @12:00PM
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For some uses, sure. But for plenty of uses that can be provided in context, RAG, or via tool use, or doesn't matter.
Even for the uses where it does matter, unless providers get squeezed down to zero margin, it's not that new models will never happen, but that the speed at which they can afford to produce large new models will slow.