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Re: GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

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Post by patates »

JimDabell wrote: post #21

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…

Google Cloud's article is from tomorrow?

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/g...

https://i.postimg.cc/RVWSfpvs/grafik.png

Re: GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

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Post by atomic128 »

rnmaker wrote: 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.

Yes. Thank you for saying it. We're watching Microsoft et al. defeat open source.

Large language models are used to aggregate and interpolate intellectual property.

This is performed with no acknowledgement of authorship or lineage, with no attribution or citation.

In effect, the intellectual property used to train such models becomes anonymous common property.

The social rewards (e.g., credit, respect) that often motivate open source work are undermined.

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

Re: GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

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Post by [deleted] »

didip wrote: post #41
mk_chan wrote: post #35

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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Re: GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

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Post by rvz »

You mean "Microsoft" cuts deals with Google and Anthropic on top of their already existing deals with Mistral, Inflection whilst also having an exclusivity deal with OpenAI?

This is an extend to extinguish round 4 [0], whilst racing everyone else to zero.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41908456

Re: GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

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Post by Rhapso »

pseudosavant wrote: post #57
didip wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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?

They have established a precedent of embracing open standards and markets only long enough to kill them.

Re: GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

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Post by TeaBrain »

gonab wrote: post #55
dartos wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I don't think this is necessarily converse to what they said.

Re: GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

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Post by cortesoft »

patates wrote: post #61
JimDabell wrote: post #21

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…

Google Cloud's article is from tomorrow? https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/g... https://i.postimg.cc/RVWSfpvs/grafik.png

It says the 29th now

Re: GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

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Post by TheRealPomax »

dfried wrote: post #37

Anyone doing strategic business with Microsoft would do well to remember what they did to Nokia.

You mean waste a few billion on buying a company that couldn't compete with the market anymore because the iphone made "even an idiot should be able to use this thing, and it should be able to do pretty much everything" a baseline expectation with an OS/software experience to match? Nokia failed Nokia, and then Microsoft gave it a shot. And they also couldn't make it work.

(sure, that glosses over the whole Elop saga, but Microsoft didn't buy a Nokia-in-its-prime and killed it. They bought an already failing business and even throwing MS levels of resources at it couldn't turn it around)

Re: GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic

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Post by sprkv5 »

One of the reasons that comes to my mind is - it could have been problematic look for only Microsoft (Copilot) to have access to GitHub for training AI models - à la monopolizing a data treasure trove. With anti-competitive legislation catching up to Google to open up its Play Store, this could have been one of key reasons why this deal came about.
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