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[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I wouldn't have a problem if they were actually investing the money in something useful like R&D

Nearly all the investment is in data centers. Their approach for the past 2 years seems to be just throwing more hardware at existing approaches, which is a really great way to burn an absurd amount of money for little to nothing in return

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

It’s very corporate, isn’t it? “Just keep scaling what we have.”

That being said, a lot of innovation is happening, but goes unused. It’s incredible how my promising papers come out, and get completely passed over by Big Tech AI, like nothing matters unless it’s developed in house.

The Chinese firms are picking up some research in bigger models, at least, but are kinda falling into local maxima too.