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100b sounds implausible if you consider that anthropic's revenue is only expected to reach 100b this year, 100m is more likely.
100b is too high, but 100m is way too low.
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#512Oh wow, I read a article recently that talked about Stripe not being just about payment. I'll take a look at link thanks.
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Cortecs.ai
Only EU providers, seemingly huge latency, >2x pricing is just in no way an alternative. https://cortecs.ai/detailedServerlessView/deepseek-v4-flash-... https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731#provid...
> Only EU providers
It is though, if that is what you want
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Only EU providers, seemingly huge latency, >2x pricing is just in no way an alternative. https://cortecs.ai/detailedServerlessView/deepseek-v4-flash-... https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731#provid...
> Only EU providers It is though, if that is what you want
In the sense that asparagus is an alternative to bananas, if that's what you want.
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PE is desperately competing other PE to get into the promise of some AI thingy NOW? Just guessing. The frenzy around popular, good already, and successful services with the corporate crap flowing from this acquisition announcement too is appalling. The "what's best for you, the user" heavy emphasis when this would be inherently evident in any honest service forecasts the opposite. Some highlights from one of my agent…
Are you seriously posting an LLM generated “analysis” of financial event.
You small be trying LLM's once. They can do a lot for you, man. People use it in real life now!
(It was more like quoting a point of view of some source, named, btw. As you can clearly see. You have my thoughts there too. In case you missed those.)
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I think it has to be more than just a 'proxy' what Stripe bought. Stripe and every other big company could build this without any issues. It either is just a really stupid business decision or it is about the name. The only model proxy i know is OpenRouter despite plenty of other model proxies existing.
> Stripe and every other big company could build this without any issues. It either is just a really stupid business decision or it is about the name. The only model proxy i know is OpenRouter despite plenty of other model proxies existing I wait for the moment where engineers realise there's more to a product than just the building aspect.
Sure if its not just about the name, then perhaps its the speed.
Nonetheless, just because someone payed that much money for it, doesn't has to mean antyhing.
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> Stripe and every other big company could build this without any issues. It either is just a really stupid business decision or it is about the name. The only model proxy i know is OpenRouter despite plenty of other model proxies existing I wait for the moment where engineers realise there's more to a product than just the building aspect.
Sure if its not just about the name, then perhaps its the speed. Nonetheless, just because someone payed that much money for it, doesn't has to mean antyhing.
It means at least, that there's something of value in the company worth that amount of money. Regardless of what it is.
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#519Found a good european alternative: https://cortecs.ai/pricing
Awesome will check this out. EUrouter is too cost prohibitive for me, and now that open router has been acquired by stripe it’s only a matter of time until it’s unusable
I don’t think it would become ‘unusable’… but the concentration of power in tech continues to be worrying.
They had no true reason to sell beyond greed?
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LLMs are inherently unreliable. We do already work with unreliable technologies for many things but there's this engineering principle called "use the right tool for the job". And it's a lot more likely that LLMs can't be changed to become unreliable, it's just how they work. So we would need more basic research, that doesn't grow on trees and for which the timelines are basically open ended. Maybe tomorrow, maybe ri…
They’ve become a lot more reliable. It would be strange if that progress stopped now. It’s possible. My main point is that they won’t get worse , as the other commenter suggested.
This isn’t a theoretical or technical problem; in fact, it’s not about the models at all: it’s about the available services getting worse. When they preview a new model and people are benchmarking it, they afford them a shitload of compute and they work great. Then, they get worse. That extra compute is surely in the billions of dollars OpenAI allotted to marketing, and especially in higher-volume periods, people talk about Anthropic‘s responses being lower quality all the time. The finances don’t indicate these companies’ current MOs are sustainable. Since self-hosted models don’t stand a chance of competing with frontier model capabilities, there is a very real chance that the available services will get much worse, and where the rubber hits the road, that’s really all that matters in the foreseeable future.