One day I hope someone will realise our fine tuned avatars that actually get 100of Ms of views are a good case in point and where more value will be captured vs base models that will see massive competition/commoditization. But time will tell and I hope we can work hard to prove
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Google Fired Me for Questioning Model Size Strategy
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At Google, I asked why they were fixated on building THE LARGEST model. Why are you going for size? What function are you trying to achieve? Why is the thing you were upset about that you didn't have THE LARGEST model? They responded by firing me
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Media Propaganda Around OpenAI DeepMind Exposed
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No one & I mean NO ONE wanted to listen to us when we screamed at the top of our lungs that the emperor has no clothes… Nothing else has taught me more about how propaganda works as seeing how everyone treated OpenAI, Deepmind & friends since their inception.
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Technology democratization spreads at unprecedented scale
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We're learning the same lesson that the history of technology has taught us over and over. Everything of value gets cheaper and easier to use, so it spreads far and wide. It’s one thing to say this, and another to see it unfold at warp speed and epic scale, week after week.
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Databricks Supports Virtue Foundation Global Health Data Initiative
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We're thrilled to support the Virtue Foundation in its mission to advance global health. As part of our #DatabricksForGood initiative, we helped build a solution to keep core datasets up-to-date, accurate, and readily accessible. These datasets are integrated into a #GenAI
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DeepSeek R1 True Training Costs Beyond $5.567M
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The R1 model wasn't free, and the DeepSeek R1 paper doesn't talk about costs at all. The $5.567M cost for DeepSeek is for when you have all the ingredients in front of you – running that recipe costs $5.567M. It doesn't consider the cost of procuring those ingredients (in this
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DeepSeek Disruption Favors Application Layer Over Foundation Models
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Today's "DeepSeek selloff" in the stock market — attributed to DeepSeek V3/R1 disrupting the tech ecosystem — is another sign that the application layer is a great place to be. The foundation model layer being hyper-competitive is great for people building applications.
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BlindSculpting Featured Style Now Available on Krea
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Featured style #003 – "BlindSculpting" by @nikvsio available now for everyone in Krea.
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Algorithms vs Unlimited Resources: OpenAI’s Opposite Approach
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What's interesting about algorithms? The challenge of doing X with as few resources as possible (memory, etc). What do OpenAI + friends do? The opposite. "Lets assume we have unlimited resources & try to build a god."
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LLM Merry-Go-Round: Predictable Cycle of Model Obsolescence
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By the time you're back there will be something that unseats it (and comes in rose gold). This LLM merry-go-round is dizzying and sort of predictable.