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Re:Anthropic IPO Valuation Talks Drop to $1.3T as Major Inve... by beloch on Saturday November 07, 2026 @12:49AM (#50402007)
I suppose I should have said they just didn't go up faster than the capabilities of local models are improving. I suspect local model/hardware capability will scale up faster than most people's needs when it comes to coding. That's a problem for Sam Altman.
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Re:Anthropic IPO Valuation Talks Drop to $1.3T as Major Inve... by shepherdjerred on Saturday November 07, 2026 @01:12PM (#50406673)
Open weight/local models are important but they do not compete with frontier models like Fable/Astra. They aren’t even close.
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