@Marakus @RustyCrab @Inginsub @IAMAL_PHARIUS Yep. The company heads are almost exclusively finance douchebags who bought the top ML guys because ML has been useful for finance for a while now (trend prediction, trade data interpretation, related junk) so they're selling it to investors like they sell everything in modern tech. "We a frontier model and have the best people and we're paying them insane amounts to stay with us, that guarantees we're going to get better models faster." But it does not.

Even then, the "best model" is pretty finite in quality so eventually everyone will have the model and you'll be competing on features/tools and user reach. It's a money free-for-all for whoever has the best model until we reach the meaningful apex of general-use LLMs so that's what all the jockeying represents at present, even if the investors don't realize it.