I suspect there are massive selection effects the are skewing the results here. I can imagine this being quite effective for intelligent, curious, and self-motivated kids and a complete and utter disaster for the average child.
> I don't make that mistake. I actually suspect that the actual costs may be higher than the API prices. I think those may still be subsidized.
how are you still under this delusion? so you think that all the hosting companies on openrouter are just burning money selling GLM 5.2 tokens at 1/6th the cost of opus 4.8 api pricing?
Mark Zuckerberg literally tweeted today that they are pricing Muse Spark 1.1 much lower because other companies have excessive margin.
if all the competition pushes down margins on tokens to 10-20%, i dont see how the inherent scale advantages of cloud inference wont be way more to account for the 20% cheaper tokens youd be getting running locally. i dont see how local will ever be more economical
As far as i remember, the entire AI org was essentially gutted and replaced with whoever Wang wanted to hire, and tbh that org completely failed to train llama 4 and I honestly doubt whatever techniques they used to ship llama 3 are at all relevant now. That was before reasoning models and the heavy emphasis on RL/post-training.
so yeah, this is essentially their first try with a completely new org.
Everyone has been loving to shit on the Alexander Wang acquisition but this seems legitimately impressive to me?
Meta's AI org when from a total mismanaged dumpster fire for multiple years to delivering a competitive model in less than a year on essentially their first try?
giant corporations arent interested in hiring skilled artisans or artists. it doesnt matter how skilled your team is with idTech, the chances of success for any video game are just vanishingly small and inconsistent.
it feels to me like the AAA game industry is like hollywood except the budgets are higher and there are even lower chances of success. i mean theres literally multi hundred million dollar games that essentially made zero dollars. Even shitty blockbusters make some money.
> You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.
this is a pithy think to say but its really not true, and every person that has lost their religion and been convinced by rational argument is a counter example.