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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. locknitpicker · 1790410590 · 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?).

      My thoughts too. It sounds like a minor feature being framed as a whole new business.

      Then again, Dropbox and Docker are too.

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