I had to do a double take myself, scrolled down and arrived at a similar number.

Wish I built this a few years ago!

Yeah, I bought a Thelio Major three years ago. I'm kicking myself for not going dual-4090s for a mere $10K back then.

Hopefully it will come down to that price point or cheaper again in the next 3-4 years?

Hopefully... If it doesn't, mere mortals like us consumers are going to be priced out of computers altogether. It'll be the end of the personal computing era and a return to big iron mainframes.

On the highest end maybe. But people have had some sucess DIYing some semi-modern lithography semiconductor production.

"All of this has happened before, and will happen again."

One of the most biased claims IMO in AI 2027 is that a huge portion of the geopolitical and existential risk argument is hinged on the notion that China just steals the US frontier weights.

Biased how? China has a long history of corporate espionage.

Everyone knows the Chinese are capable of whatever they put their minds to. But stealing IP to skip some steps is part of the system.

Look what's coming out of China, they are catching up on performance and surpassing the US in efficiency. They're on a different level when it comes to open releases of weights.

I don't, to me the entire premise is a bit flawed at it's core (ASI), and I read it like bad science fiction with China playing the bad guy just a narrative crux so we get to the acceleration timeline and warring nation states.

What country is supposed to be counterexample here, with zero history of corporate espionnage?

good thing US is completely clean

Of course it's a spectrum that all advanced countries exist on, but if you think China and the US are on the same end of the spectrum, that's strange.

The US/China divide is one thing, but if I'm asked whether I trust OpenAI or Deepseek, as companies, more, I'm not sure how I'd answer. I suppose my default is to distrust whoever is in the lead, since the lead is power, and power corrupts.

Yeah Sam Altman doesn't inspire trust. Dario and Musk are a bit better in this regard. I think they both say what they really think. Altman... no way.

That's what a lot of American companies say.

Wait until you hear about Amazon's practices.

Anthropic documented even more proof of that yesterday:

https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-septemb...

Distillation is not infiltrating systems and exfiltrating weights.

I feel that quote more likely is pointed at "music appreciation" as a written work, versus understanding the theory. I know a few musicians who are happy to use terminology from theory, "I love to write songs with diminished and sustained chords".

This seems like a great resource to me, a classically trained pianist who is now playing different types of music.

And I didn't touch it, because it's your call to make...

I mean CoT came out of research circles not marketing

It's impossible to tell the “it's all marketing!!11oneone” folks anything.

I don't disagree. I remember the days of "think step by step". Plenty of people were doing it before the paper. Just a guess but that's where the title came from.

Regardless, marketing wise they stepped in shit.

Research is salesmanship.

Well at least DeepSeek is up. :)

One of the early results from multimodal training is that it kinda works like cross training. Training vision helps with text tasks and visa versa.

If I'm about to step into it 5 seconds after you leave, yes it does.

And yet when I want to do some photography, as is my right in public spaces, everyone gets all indignant.

honestly "product guy" is enough of a slur for most technical folks. What you are saying just sounds nasty.

It's a troll account. Stuff like this isn't productive and should get flagged.

`emacs -nw` with DOOM Emacs for me. :)