2026-02-02 18:52 UTC
@krystyna@toad.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social I expect the hardware giants (Amazon, Microsoft, Google, NVidia, Apple) to either sideline or acquire software-first companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Cursor. They’re closing the tech gap and have the capital. When training a single LLM generation costs hundreds of millions in compute, and every model could be a flop, a waste or money
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@AdmSnackbar@mastodon.social 2026-02-02 20:58
@iurii@mastodon.world @krystyna@toad.social @nixCraft@mastodon.social Problem is, these giants also can't make a profit with it. Hardly anyone actually wants to pay anything for AI, and even less are willing to pay the real price. All the expensive hardware will be obsolete in two or three years and to this day I have not seen a single actually "disruptive" and functional use case for LLMs. Small improvements here and there, sure, but providing free coffee would have produced the same productivity boost.