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Re: GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

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If you want to destroy open source completely, the more models the better. Microsoft's co-opting and infiltration of OSS projects will serve as a textbook example of eliminating competition in MBA programs. And people still support it by uploading to GitHub.

> And people still support it by uploading to GitHub.

It’s slowly, but noticeably moving from GitHub to other sites.

The network effect is hard to work against.

Re: GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

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post #10

Sensible. Big part of competitors' (eg. Aider, Cursor, I imagine also jetbrains) advantage was not being tied to one model as the landscape changed. After large MS OpenAI investment they could just as easily have put blinders on and doubled down.

Jetbrains is doing its own LLM

Cursor is too! Mixing and matching specialized & flagship models is the way forward.

Re: GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I too use Claude more frequently than OpenAi GPT4o. I think this is a two fold move for MS and I like it. Claude being more accurate / efficient for me says it's likely they see the same thing, win number 1. The second is with all the OpenAI drama MS has started to distance themselves over a souring relationship (allegedly). If so, this could be a smart move away tactfully. Either way, Claude is great so this is a ne…

Yeah, Claude consistently impresses me. A commenter on another thread mentioned it but it’s very similar to how search felt in the early 2000s. I ask it a question and get my answer. Sometimes it’s a little (or a lot) wrong or outdated, but at least I get something to tinker with.

Conversely I feel that the experience of searching has been degraded by a lot since 2016/17. My these is that, at this time, online spam increased by an order of magnitude

Re: GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

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Anthropic’s article: https://www.anthropic.com/news/github-copilot GitHub’s article: https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/bringing-deve... Google Cloud’s article: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/g... Weird that it wasn’t published on the official Gemini news site here: https://blog.google/products/gemini/ Edit: GitHub Copilot is now also available in Xcode: https://github.blog/cha…

I wonder if behind the choice of calling the human user "mona" there's an Italian XD

https://i.imgur.com/z01xgfl.png

Re: GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

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The reason here is Microsoft is trying to make copilot a platform. This is the essential step to moving all the power from OpenAI to Microsoft. It would grant Microsoft leverage over all providers since the customers would depend on Microsoft and not OpenAI or Google or Anthropic. Classic platform business evolution at play here.

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Amazing that even when they are giving users maximal choice, even including their arch-nemesis Google, they are evil? Would Microsoft be better if you could only use Microsoft models?

Re: GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

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post #32

If you want to destroy open source completely, the more models the better. Microsoft's co-opting and infiltration of OSS projects will serve as a textbook example of eliminating competition in MBA programs. And people still support it by uploading to GitHub.

> If you want to destroy open source completely

The irony is of course that open source is what they used to train their models with.

Re: GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

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post #56

Anthropic’s article: https://www.anthropic.com/news/github-copilot GitHub’s article: https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/bringing-deve... Google Cloud’s article: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/g... Weird that it wasn’t published on the official Gemini news site here: https://blog.google/products/gemini/ Edit: GitHub Copilot is now also available in Xcode: https://github.blog/cha…

I wonder if behind the choice of calling the human user "mona" there's an Italian XD https://i.imgur.com/z01xgfl.png

It's Mona Lisa the Octocat: https://github.com/monatheoctocat
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