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Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows AI vision, surging costs

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2ss · 1790639528 · focus · HN ↗
2 things can be true:
-LLMs profoundly change society -The LLM business is mangled in terms of ROIC vs CoC
Such a business already exists - airlines.
This nuance is what many here refuse/find difficult to understand.
1. elzbardico · 1790641967 · focus · HN ↗
  Frankly, outside of coding there's no much real use for AI, which is basically NLP.
  1. minimaxir · 1790642057 · focus · HN ↗
    There's, uh, a reason ChatGPT is one of the biggest consumer apps of all time.
    dubbie99 · 1790642242 · focus · HN ↗
    That nobody uses on their phones. It’s like that install of angrybirds everyone has that they haven’t touched in a decade
    minimaxir · 1790642918 · focus · HN ↗
    As of today, ChatGPT is the #4 Top Free app on the US iOS App Store: this chart only measures new/recent downloads.
    The #1 and #2 apps are non-coding, pure consumer AI applications (Meta Muse and Momo).

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