It's not the only thing but it helps. Kamala was being praised for raising almost a billion dollars. The dems spent more money in presidential elections than republicans.
Where money goes further is being able to get attention. If the performance on TV, ads, roadshows is stronger than the other candidate you win.
Politics so so much about showmanship.
Elon with his Nazi salute even though many perceived as negative, it got him lots of attention in Media to be talk of town.
One thing going for Trump is he understands entertainment and attention. Positive or negative, he is center stage in news.
For all the millions that Marc and Ben Andreesen spent lobbying for Trump saying "Biden will control who gets to use AI and small players don't have a chance".
Oh the Irony!
Anyone serious about the future should see the writing on the wall. We shouldn't give too much power to the government or the billionaires.
May the open weight/open source models win the future.
Tesla given $60M by Obama admin when they were deep in debt and may have gone out of business.
so Tesla technically is subsidized by US govt. SpaceX too. Without NASA funding, they'd be long out of business.
China and US ain't that different.
China realizes that being a tech and industrial powerhouse working on future tech is great for their economy. They bet huge on it. That's how they win.
While the core arguments stand, there's little actual nutrients in the article.
I spend hours per day with codex and claude. Almost every LLM is using each other's training data. There's a ton of AI slop out there already now feeding into training data. They all sound the same.
You are right! My honest take, The customer who did X wasnt Y, it was Z.
In early 2025, this was novelty, now it's annoying.
Eric Schmidt made billions, probably 10s of billions from Google becoming an AI behemoth. The young graduates who can't find a job, will likely not be able to afford a median home in their 20-30s due to their debt growing faster than earnings. It is a stark difference.
"You have the power to shape AI" - So many empty words spoken!