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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by noosphr on Thursday October 23, 2025 @02:30PM (#45685154)
Search, after Bert, is very much a commodity.

I get better results than Google on segments of common craw using a desktop computer and a research model.

Given that Google has decades of scrapes, and more than four gpus to work with, they can do a better job than me. That I beat them right now is nothing short of embarrassing, bordering on an existential threat.

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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by jimbo_joe on Friday October 24, 2025 @07:46AM (#45693622)
> Search, after Bert, is very much a commodity. > I get better results than Google on segments of common craw using a desktop computer and a research model.

For data which hasn't changed since knowledge cutoff - for sure, but for real life web search, being able to get fresh data is a hard requirement.

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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by noosphr on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @03:21AM (#45729990)
That is not how encoder only models work.
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