Why is it a problem that the Chinese labs are just distilling down Anthropic’s models? Aren’t Anthropic’s models not just distilling down other people’s work?
Feels like Anthropic crying do as I say not as I do.
It ain't gonna happen. At work I have a dropdown menu in vscode with a dozen models to use interchangeably. They're all essentially commodities and will compete on price and squash almost all profit margin.
That's not their business model. They won't win on price, but they won't compete on price. Their business model is making the current state of the art.
If I'm a business and I need something done today, and bc Anthropic has the best model, there's a 99.9 chance it will be completed successfully for $1000. And using Deepseek there's a 70% chance it will, for $10 - you or me will go for the $10. Big businesses don't. Bc 1000 per task is nothing to them.
Yes, large corporations frequently pay orders of magnitude more for slightly better software. That's why Oracle produces the best stuff on the planet.
The real issue is that Deepseek has a 99.7% chance. So I can run it 10 times until it works and still pay 1/10 the money.
cmiles8 · · focus · HN ↗
Feels like Anthropic crying do as I say not as I do.
jorblumesea · · focus · HN ↗
it's not complex. there's hundreds of billions of investor dollars counting on vendor lock in and walled gardens
2OEH8eoCRo0 · · focus · HN ↗
dpweb · · focus · HN ↗
If I'm a business and I need something done today, and bc Anthropic has the best model, there's a 99.9 chance it will be completed successfully for $1000. And using Deepseek there's a 70% chance it will, for $10 - you or me will go for the $10. Big businesses don't. Bc 1000 per task is nothing to them.
HWR_14 · · focus · HN ↗
The real issue is that Deepseek has a 99.7% chance. So I can run it 10 times until it works and still pay 1/10 the money.