> but not as much as they would if they were putting all of their eggs into one casket, as the "AI companies" like OpenAI and Anthropic do (or do much more).
Microsoft invested over 15 billion in OpenAI.
You think they wouldn't have rather spent a fraction of that to have a SoTA model?
Limititing the "money burn rate" on AI is a political compromise that was made at the companies between various decision makers
Meta has no one to compromise with as Zuck is the majority shareholder (voting wise), Apple has so much cash they don't know what to do with it (cars, VR, etc),
This argument doesn't hold up for these cash rich top companies.
The companies hope that at the end even a not state-of-the-art AI model might offer business opportunities
I find it hard to believe that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all aren't optimizing for 'bang for buck' here.
You think they wouldn't have rather spent a fraction of that to have a SoTA model?
Meta has no one to compromise with as Zuck is the majority shareholder (voting wise), Apple has so much cash they don't know what to do with it (cars, VR, etc),This argument doesn't hold up for these cash rich top companies.
I find it hard to believe that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all aren't optimizing for 'bang for buck' here.