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alecco

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    Comment #48853396

    Those 2 comments are from a month ago, on the same day , and my point was he was spamming those threads with basically the same comment, and he links often to his site and his post…

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    Comment #48851530

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    Comment #48849195

    More wild speculation, now with wishful thinking spread on top.

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    Comment #48838771

    Grok's latest model is objectively superior to any of the current Google models in the most relevant use cases. I don't like Elon musk but that does not change reality. And Google …

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    Comment #48836412

    xAI > Gooogle & DeepMind I did not have this one on my 2026 bingo card.

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    Comment #48830639

    AGPL only closes the SaaS loophole and forces them to publish their changes to the code. It's not anti-business at all. You could argue the BSL is anti-business. But IMHO even that…

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    Comment #48828759

    It is quite telling that most cloud companies stay away from AGPL. Their business model is antisocial.

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    Comment #48828631

    IMHE the models work much better if you go directly to the creator's API. DeepSeek V4 official API gives me 8x better caching so it was 40% cheaper in my case. Unless it bothers yo…

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    Comment #48828596

    The real thing not the knock-off website in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48818963

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    Comment #48817582

    Yep https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48816025 And EU leadership completely destroyed Europe's future by betting on depending on US and Chinese models. https://pleias.ai/blog/fa…

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    Comment #48807983

    This new forecasting industry is pushed by very dirty people.

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    Comment #48802766

    And Anthropic sure reads and applies all the open research. This 2023 thread about this issue is prescient: https://old.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/11sboh1/d_... (just ad…

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    Comment #48791828

    https://archive.ph/hhCcM Science The Graduate-School Dropout Toppling China’s Academic Stars Shamed by a blogger, Chinese universities wage blitzkrieg against academic fraud SINGAP…

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    Comment #48760797

    Agreed. But please don't flag for the link as we'll lose the discussion. I don't care much about the tweet. It was the one I saw circulating. Mods can change the link to the full i…

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    Comment #48760297

    I really don't like Karp but I think he is spot on this point.

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    Comment #48758564

    Chinese Big Tech aim to do that and worse, also in bed with their political class. They only do open source because their hand was forced. Today big pockets and big datacenters are…

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    Comment #48754384

    > The good guys are the chinese firms Eh... I'd say DeepSeek and maybe one more of the small labs. Chinese Big Tech is even worse than US Big Tech.