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The economics of the whole affair unfortunately point squarely in the opposite direction.
So European, right?
I'm immediately thinking, there's got to be some sovereignty aspect to the initiative. Right?
But, if you look at the "The silicon is here." section and dig a little:
> "Shenzhen MilkV Technology Co., Ltd" [1]
Wake me up when someone can actually build a computer from scratch with EU-made parts in 2026.
a) The amounts stolen
b) The very poor uncensorability and anonymity guarantees offered by the kind of crypto they stole
Regarding uncensorability, some of these cryptos score so bad on that axis that the stolen goods can likely be recovered by a simple decision from the folks who manage/own the chain.
Assuming they actually can cover the losses financially.
And if they don't good luck suing them.
I'm going to experiment with this one (assuming they ever get around to actually releasing it), and I'm really hoping the lame cultural aftertaste is gone.
Does that mean Anthropic now has a copy of Google's source code?
[EDIT]: thanks to people in the know for their answers.
Follow-up question:
if Anthropic models run in a Google cage, does that not also mean Google can distill Anthropic models even easier (both fast and unseen)?
I don't buy it.
SpaceX is not exactly a small corporation, and they nevertheless strike me as far less risk-averse than GOOG and they deal with actual hardware that actually effing explodes.
for whom?
Do they actually have a legal say in the matter?
Hire an actual marketing person instead of letting engineers / ML researchers do things they're clearly terrible at ?
As long as LLM's can be distilled, and all these "labs" (what a weird name) can distill one another, there are going to be as many as capital is available to be burnt on the topic.
It is indeed, and full disclosure, I am 100% one of these folks.
Much like there are people that still forge full-scale two-handed swords in their garage.
Magnificent and fulfilling work, but with questionable economic value.
I believe you may have a rather narrow notion of what politics are.
In my book, politics is the art of making choices when your ability to predict the future is limited, and therefore the willingness, courage and fortitude to make choices under uncertainty.
Under that definition, they're making a choice, one that materially and obviously can't be backed by sound reasoning or logic (because predicting the future is hard), that's politics.
You didn't get my point. It might very well be that the only project that lets you actually freely boot a computer in 5 years will be this one, specifically because they did not let an AI touch it.
In that regard, it will be the only project, like you put it, "that works".
Like I said, I don't necessary subscribe to their view, but the diversity of opinion matters, it helps with minor things like, oh, survival.
They're making a political choice. It's a free country, and more power to them.
It's not a choice that I necessarily agree with, but one that may - who knows - prove prescient 5 years down the road.
No one can predict the future, that's what politics are partly about and the reason why diversity of opinion of choice matters.
Do you have a crystal ball?
The whole thing, including ingestion and review, is not meant to be used by humans.
This is the shared memory / history of a horde of coding agents.
They don't.
If they did, neither OpenAI nor Anthropic would even exist, as the core of what they're all doing was invented by Google engineers and researchers.
The others are quite bad as well in that regard, but on this particular metric, Google has always been top dog. Goes back to way before AI ever took off, BTW.
Really well argued, congrats.
Yes, absolutely. But then they wouldn't be able to lock the flock in the barn, which is so contrary to Apple's DNA that you can't event talk about it in a 1 mile radius of 1, Infinite loop.
This is about as wrong as you can possibly get.
This would be true in a stateless world (assuming you can remember the site you want to visit).
Which the web hasn't been since a very long time.