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Re:Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour... by echelon on Friday February 20, 2026 @09:19AM (#47088352)
You better hope Anthropic and OpenAI thrive, because a world in which Google is the sole winner is a nightmare.

Google's best trick was skirting the antitrust ruling against them by making the judge think they'd "lose" AI. What a joke.

Meanwhile they're camping everyone's trademarks, turning them into lucrative bidding wars because they own 92% of the browser URL bars.

Try googling for Claude or ChatGPT. Those companies are shelling out hundreds of millions to their biggest competitor to defend their trademarks. If they stop, suddenly they lose 60% of their traffic. Seems unfair, right?

Re:Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour... by co_king_5 on Friday February 20, 2026 @09:25AM (#47088412)
I understand that Google is an extraordinarily bloated monopoly.

What I mean is that I am so bitter about OpenAI and Anthropic's social media manipulation and the effects of AI psychosis on the people around me that I would gladly accept a worse future and a less free society just to watch them suffer.

Re:Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour... by palmotea on Friday February 20, 2026 @11:34AM (#47090231)
Also, Sam Altman (at least) gives the impression of being a bit of a manipulative psychopath. Even if there are others out there like him, who are just more competent at hiding their tendencies, I really don't want him to win the "world's richest man" jackpot; it'd be a bad lesson to others. Steve Jobs hero-worship is bad enough.
Re:Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour... by PunchTornado on Friday February 20, 2026 @09:27AM (#47088444)
I'm waiting to see a more egregious company than openai and a bigger scammer ceo like altman. no, thank you. i hope openai goes bankrupt. especially since the ousting of ilya.
Re:Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour... by co_king_5 on Friday February 20, 2026 @09:30AM (#47088476)
> I'm waiting to see a more egregious company than openai and a bigger scammer ceo like altman.

Anthropic and Dario Amodei are undoubtedly bigger scammers IMO.

Re:Nvidia and OpenAI abandon unfinished $100B deal in favour... by Imustaskforhelp on Friday February 20, 2026 @10:16AM (#47089046)
Honestly at this point, I don't care which company lives or dies.

Because recent open source models have reached my idea of "enough". I just want the bubble to burst, but I think the point of the bubble burst is that Anthropic and OpenAI couldn't survive whereas Google has chances of survival but even then we have open source models and the bubble has chances of reducing hardware costs.

OpenAI and Anthropic walked so that Google or Open source models could run but I wish competition and hope that maybe all these companies can survive but the token cost is gonna cost more, maybe that will tilt things more towards hardware.

I just want the bubble to burst because the chances of it prolonging would have a much severe impact than what improvements we might see in Open source models. And to be quite frank, we might be living an over-stimulus of "Intelligence", and has the world improved?

Everything I imagined in AI sort of reached and beyond and I am not satisfied with the result. Are you guys?

I mean, now I can make scripts to automate some things and some other things but I feel like we lost something so much more valuable in the process. I have made almost all of my projects with LLM's and yet they are still empty. Hollow.

So to me, the idea of bursting the bubble is of the utmost importance now because as long as the bubble continues, we are subsiziding the bubble itself and we are gonna be the one who are gonna face the most impact, and well already are facing it.

in hindsight, I think evolution has a part in this. We humans are so hard coded to not get outside of the tribe/the-newest-thing so maybe collectively us as a civiliazation can get dis-enchanted first via crypto now AI but we also can think for ourselves and the civilization is built from us in my naive view.

So the only thing we can do is think for ourselves and try to learn but it seems as if that's the very thing AI wants to offload.

Have a nice day.