Patrick Boyle on the repercussions of the U.S. government’s shutdown of Anthropic’ flagship AI models on June 12:
For years, the theory was that building artificial intelligence required Silicon Valley genius, billions in venture capital, and an exclusive relationship with a cloud computing giant […] It turns out that there is no monopoly on math. The open-source models are good enough. They’re 60 times cheaper, and nobody in Washington can switch them off on a Friday afternoon. The productivity gains everyone was promised will still happen; they’ll just flow to the businesses running the code on their own machines rather than to the investors who paid almost a trillion dollars for a global monopoly on math.