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>Also I believe that the Hualong One reactor design is based on Westinghouse IP

You make it sound like they stole it but they legally bought it and are building the new nuclear plants in collaboration with Westinghouse.

The .com bubble was driven by tech companies that were unprofitable. The current rally is being driven by some of the most profitable companies in modern history.

Black Friday is mostly an American thing that American companies have attempted to export to Europe.

Shopify has been able to scale to this using a Ruby on Rails monolith and a few Go/Rust services.

Impressive.

Maybe we should have learned during the Trump years that the media puts no effort into vetting "anonymous sources" or is outright making them up to push lies.

>Remember, the people are only anonymous to you. Reuters knows who they are.

A group of Russian trolls/comedians have been able to cheat Western politicians and journalists into talking with them using deep faked webcam feeds and edited documents.

Most still remember the amount of ridiculous "anonymous source" bullshit stories that were pushed during the Trump years.

Honestly at this point I just assume all "anonymous sources" and the journalists who quote them are lying.

Academic computer graphics research is in many places still using OpenGL 4.1.

The Chinese state can trivially identify these people even if they don't use their real names. But by forcing them to use their real names they crowdsource the initial policing of opinions to the public. If that doesn't work the state will step in.

Bard is better than ChatGPT-3.5.

But GPT-4 is indeed a class of its own.

Bard is better than ChatGPT-3.5.

They are worse than GPT-4 because nobody other than OpenAI (and their free Azure credits) have been willing to throw $100 million in training a single LLM.

Before the current drama:

>Microsoft owned 49% of the for-profit part of OpenAI.

>OpenAI's training, inference, and all other infrastructure were running entirely on Azure credits.

>Microsoft/Azure were the only ones offering OpenAI's models/APIs with a business-friendly SLA, uptime/stability, and the option to host them in Azure data centers outside the US.

OpenAI is already Microsoft.

People spooked by OpenAI turmoil should go with Azure OpenAI services. They host OpenAI's models for almost the same pricing but with enterprise-level SLA. If you are outside the US you can also choose an Azure datacenter closer to you.

Neither Apple, Google, Amazon, nor Microsoft have a systemic monopoly.

>Apple, Google, Amazon and maybe even Microsoft

What would be the economic and geopolitical consequences of the US breaking up the only US companies that are globally competitive? Chinese giants will outcompete the smaller less competitive remnants after these kind of corporate breakups.

It is infuriating how the West keeps sabotaging itself. Both China and Yandex/Russia are moving ahead while the West is self-sabotaging with all the "responsible AI" bullshit.

Even liking a single political post will fill the timeline with blatant political disinfo from the fringes of the political spectrum.

But it was also this bad before Musk.

Something else disturbing is how much European governments trust Microsoft/Azure. They are normally allergic to US big tech but Microsoft has somehow convinced European governments to hand out their citizens data.

Ilya is much less active on Twitter than the others. The rumors that blamed him emerged and spread like wildfire and he did nothing to stop it because he probably only checks Twitter once a week.

>AWS, azure etc just eat their lunch and don’t help anybody

I know that AWS made a blatant hosted version of Elasticsearch without contributing back but the other examples are less damning.

Azure's MongoDB offering is just the MongoDB API on top of their own document-oriented storage and querying architecture. Their globally scalable Redis offering is most likely also their own implementation and only using the same API as Redis.

Israel is a heavily militarized country. The country would not be able to exist without the latest military tech. Ilya flirting with the tech scene of Israel is a very good indicator that he is not anti mil-tech.

I don't think anyone at OpenAI was planning to give mil-tech to Iran and Iranian proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.

>responsible board

The board was irresponsible and incompetent by design. There is one OpenAI board member who has an art degree and is part of some kind of cultish "singularity" spiritual/neo-religious thing. That individual has also never had a real job and is on the board of several other non-profits.

Ilya has Israeli citizenship and has toured Israel and given talks at Israeli universities including one talk with Sam Altman.

He is not anti mil-tech.

The engines on the first stage did well in this test. During the first test they were malfunctioning like crazy.

>Can a super smart business-y person educate this engineer on how this even happens.

There is nothing business-y about this. As a non-profit OpenAI can do whatever they want.

That is one problem with non-profits. They end up with completely unprofessional leadership because they hire their friends who are crazies just like themselves.

When things cool down in a few months we will learn Altman and Brockman were some of the few sane people on the board.

There is one OpenAI board member who has an art degree and is part of some kind of cultish "singularity" spiritual/neo-religious thing. That individual has also never had a real job and is on the board of several other non-profits.

What the hell were they thinking? Just because you are a non-profit doesn't mean you should imitate other non-profits and put crazies on the board.

>Sam’s Twitter one-emoji bio is uncharacteristically brief, and points at an ongoing conflict

A Star of David emoji is not the same thing as an Israeli flag emoji.

My bad: Ilya is indeed of Russian-Jewish origin.