2. A CSIS study puts the military cost at about $40 billion. Weapons are biggest item, then the cost of repairing US bases in the region, which have suffered extensive damage. “You’d have to go back to the Second World War to see something like that,” one of the authors told me.
Is Anthropic officially sunsetting low cost models in their biz strategy (e.g. haiku old, sonnet 5 bad)? I know they are going for AGI/RSI but wondering if they’ve publicly stated this shift. Makes sense financially but user experience is not good.
@rasbt I’ve heard it’s actually to prove distillation of future models, which would give more ammo to the anti open weights argument. Sounds more likely.
Thank you @deanwball for your tremendous work on the AI Action Plan and your service to this great nation.
We were lucky to have you on the team and are all the more fortunate to now have you outside of government to help turn the President’s vision into reality. I can’t wait to see all that you will accomplish next.
@Teknium@sedricm@deanwball Very pro open source, but if the only dimension you care about is acceleration banning open source globally would increase that, accounting for investment effects. It’s not about higher quality or lower cost, just the amount of total capital invested
@Sentdex@__jiaming__ One of the things that irks me about AI twitter. The algorithm rewards vague/ambiguous posts so everyone can get offended. Meaning doesn’t matter.
‘Altman told staff the government would be "approving access customer by customer during this preview period" for GPT 5.6’
Given the admin’s blatant pay-to-play stance, i wonder who will get priority.
Looking back it might be a tragedy that AGI arrives in l Trump era