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1. pradn · 1790371022 · focus · HN ↗

   I'm not sure what this means for AI startups if their innovations can be copied by OSS so quickly (what, like 2 weeks?). There's "consumer surplus" for everyone, to borrow an economic concept. But we do ideally want some of the surplus to flow to the innovator, too. I know there were precursors, but that's fine - it's hard to have a totally novel idea in such a popular field. I don't know what the end game is for TypeSafe - they'd need to demonstrate perpetually better results, or compete in another axis: UX, support, custom solutions, etc. So much of the time, someone proving a concept, or it simply getting enough publicity, is enough for a "Cambrian explosion" of follow-ups and copies. Famously, that was true for "Attention is All You Need", and the general idea of "next-token prediction" being so powerful.

   We've stumbled into general differentiable models..

   1. _menelaus · 1790379847 · focus · HN ↗

      The moat is the RL synthetic data pipeline they set up to train jev. Open sourcing that would be the coup, not the model architecture and training scripts, which are trivial.

      1. cjonas · 1790405063 · focus · HN ↗

         Is it likely not just distilled from one of the flagship models? That sounds like an afternoon of work and a few thousand dollars in tokens?

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