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Generative AI is disrupting its own investment case (ghostarchive.org)

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But some investors argue that the big tech companies’ generative AI models will not necessarily capture most value because they are becoming increasingly commoditised and may be outcompeted by smaller open-source models. More money may be made by companies that have proprietary data in a particular industry and can leverage generative AI models to address specific use cases. “That is our investment strategy,” says Hemant Taneja, chief executive of the VC firm General Catalyst.

But VCs are also anxiously reviewing the valuations of their existing investment portfolios, given the disruptive impact it will have on all software businesses. Over the past few weeks, three start-up founders have told me they have had to junk their original business plans because of the launch this year of OpenAI’s more powerful GPT-4 model, rendering their use of earlier versions obsolete. Such is the speed of the technology’s evolution that start-ups and VCs are wary of betting too much on any one generative AI model for fear it will soon seem archaic.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not going to cry over this. The FOSS community is showing the world right now how important some things are and that big tech is not always the response.

The only windows machine in my house is my work laptop. Everything else runs Linux.

I won't buy consumer tech that requires an app to control it, we have all seen what happens. The MFG wants to sell more products so they intentionally sunset software and blame mobile os.

If it's in the "cloud" I don't own it AI won't be any different.