setsubyou comments on Why I Think the AI Bubble Will Not Burst

[–] setsubyou@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (3 children)

But also they are just tuning and packaging a publicly available model, not creating their own.

So they can be profitable because the cost of creating that model isn’t factored in, and if people stop throwing money at LLMs and stop releasing models for free, there goes their business model. So this is not really sustainable either.

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 point 11 months ago* (2 children)

The people releasing public models aren't the ones doing this for profit. Mostly. I know OpenAI and DeepSeek both have. Guess I'll have to go look up who trained GLM, but I suspect the resources will always be there to push the technology forward at a slower pace. People will learn to do more with less resources and that's where the bulk of the gains will be made.

Edit: A Chinese university trained GLM. Which is the sort of place where I expect research will continue to be done.

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[–] setsubyou@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

A Chinese university trained GLM

A startup spun out by a university (z.ai). Their business model is similar to what everybody else does, they host their models and sell access while trying to undercut each other. And like others they raised billions in funding from investors to be able to do this.

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago*

The model is publicly available. You and I can run it — I do. People will continue to do research long after the bubble bursts. People will continue to make breakthroughs. The technology will continue forward, just at a slower, healthier pace once the money tightens up.

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