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Yep, most wealth is ultimately dependent on some kind of ability to scrape off tiny bits of practical accomplishments of value achieved by large numbers of people. In some cases, s…

OpenRouters moat is that a) everyone knows it, but not their gazillion competitors, and b) their API URLs and key are already configured in your OpenCode/Oh-my-Pi/whatever harness …

They are reselling inference. That is not a novel concept, indeed, a stationary merchant like Walmart does conceptually the same. Although since inference doesn't require any stock…

And you do not have flat priced quota for Fable 5, right? Because nobody has, as far as I know. So you'll probably not route any task to the "current best available SOTA". Also: qu…

OpenRouter is basically a payment system for LLM tokens. Yes, it does route TCP connections from you to an inference providers' cloud, too, but what is way more important is that i…

They are simply out of ideas to keep the most expensive party in the history of mankind going. That's it. Simple as that. When you grasp for straws in panic mode, you don't exactly…

Not if the price per token is significantly lower. Also this arm of the discussion was about speed, not price.

The speed at which tokens are crunched, even on the same hardware, differs between models as well. Using more tokens is only a problem if they are processed at the same speed as wi…

I'd guess the slowness is mostly due to there currently being only one provider, Moonshot AI. And they are overwhelmed with demand. Let's judge the speed of the model when its weig…

Did you not notice that there are inference providers running all the various Chinese open weight models in the US and EU? Nobody needs "web services run from China" to use Chinese…

> What do they do all day? Same as they were doing in their startups: burn mon..., eh, tokens. > And who is left to manage their hundreds of thousands of servers? AI, of course.

I second that recommendation. Hugely informative and entertaining book!

You mean like this executive also couldn't kick off an all-out war and keep it going for months without authorization of congress?

OpenCode exists, it is your "open source coding agent" that is practically on par with Claude Code and Copilot in terms of being able to do the 80% of things that most people actua…

True, it's very useful for scammers, grifters, international terrorists and authoritarian governments to funnel monetary value around without having to rely on the traditional fina…

How exactly do you - or the Chinese, for that matter - place an export ban on an open weight model?

I think the main reason is to minimize the market for closed-source models from US companies. China knows that doing what Anthropic/OpenAI/Google/... are doing is impossible for th…

Eventim is pretty much "Ticketmaster in Germany". They captured like 90% of the German ticket market by closely watching Ticketmaster and basically repeating their playbook. Eventi…

> I feel like people just jam poorly specified input into LLMs and hope for the best. Then pile more tools on top when they don’t get what they want. People call this exact process…

The typical job of a CTO is nowhere near "finding out what business needs and translate that into pieces of software". The CTO's job is to maintain an at least remotely coherent te…

Would you consider cute animal videos that are not AI generated to be so much more worthy of your time? Because I don't really care whether cute animal videos are AI generated or f…

No one buys into Elon's firms because he's expecting dividends. His investors are not investing because of his success rate in delivering on his promises. His investors are investi…

I think he meant "keeping TSLA where it is". Tesla's sales have suffered, yes, and Elon's image is a significant contributor to that, besides all the reasons directly related to th…

Clever engineers are usually able to pick up basic supply chain management capabilities. At least as long as it's about suppliers of things in their technical domain. For non-techn…

Actually, discount grocers operate on razor-thin margins of 2-4%. If your inaccuracy is geared to the benefit of your customer (because otherwise you'll be out of business due to t…