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Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI

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Re: Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have never heard of a cloud service of ISP actively taking corporate data and shoving it into other users inbox. You'd never hear about if it the cloud service was taking your corporate data and using it for countless other things though. Insider trading, selling leads to your competitors, pushing ads to your clients/customers with offers of their own products, using trends in what your company and others are doi…

The burden of proof is on you. I doubt they want to risk their reputation, trust and agreements to make money in the ways you describe.

Corporations are amoral psychopaths that don't care about anything except getting more money and power. We have countless examples of them lying, violating the law, and even murdering large numbers of people (including babies) to get it. What makes you think a corporation would ever choose their "reputation, trust and agreements" over money and power?

Re: Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI

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The thing is, for big companies (or even small ones owned by PE, which is MOST of them), it's not just about cost. The big thing is risk . In my experience as a tech diligence assessor for PE firms for the last 7 years, investors really, really don't like companies being beholded to single entities that they don't control. Anthropic and OpenAI have demonstrated that they are not trustworthy, or predicatable, or finan…

How does this compare to being beholden to a single cloud providers like AWS or Google Cloud? Has there been a sea change in how investors view these things in general, or is it only AI?

Our clients do indeed see multi-cloud as a nice-to-have, but it costs so much more to do, and the big clouds are so trusted, that it's rare that I see it.

On the other hand, nobody trusts the big AI companies not to pull shenanigans or dramatically raise prices... or even be in business in five years.

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