> be elsevier
> make PDFs of publicly-funded research
> pay researchers exactly $0
> instead ask researchers to pay $11,000 to get their papers published
> put those papers behind a paywall
> sell subscriptions to universities for $1M
> make $4 billion in annual revenue
> add exactly zero value
> make $1.4 billion in profit at a margin of 37%, higher than Apple, Google, and Microsoft
> be ultimate rent-seeker known in the history
@aakashgupta You may become a millionaire in 20 something years, but your purchasing power will drop immensely. You won't really feel like a millionaire, however a millionaire may feel
@DefiIgnas As you said, its still in early development. Some people run their LLMs locally, other choose to rent GPU power.
Once a plug-and-play AI assistant becomes available to normies things will change.
@aakashgupta A single trained AI can be used multiple times per day, everyday. 3000 people can't.
Plus we are still experimenting with AI. Not to mention that power efficiency increases.
@louisraskin Be careful, Clawd is an AI agent without guard rails.
There is a reason advanced AI agents stay within labs and that is the amount of information they have access to. You should treat the agents as a very suspicious drug dealer in a dark alley.
@Only1temmy@The_GridAI I get what they are selling (it's not agents, it's inference, or a Unit of 1M tokens). But I'm not sure I understand why use The Grid and not independent suppliers (see Salad).
What is The Grid's specialty other than throwing money in marketing?
@MTorygreen After spending 6 months of building agents, I cam across the conclusion that either I am doing something very wrong or agents are far from being autonomous without messing up their memory.
@louisraskin Download VS Code, get paid copilot, get copilot instructions from awesome-copilot, and fix it yourself. It will not be great, but it will work.