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Meta's open AI hardware vision

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212 points GavCo | 2 comments | 15 Oct 24 18:08 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jameslk ◴[15 Oct 24 18:25 UTC] No.41851534[source]▶
That title is most definitely a swipe at OpenAI. It seems there’s a theme of two types of platform companies: the closed one that has the “premium” platform, and the open one that gets market share by commodifying the platform.

macOS vs Windows

iOS vs Android

OpenAI vs Meta AI?

Edit: Another observation is Meta seems to open things defensively. Facebook had a rich developer platform until Facebook stopped needing to grab market share. Meta’s VR platform was closed until Apple challenged them with Vision Pro. Then Meta announced open sourcing Horizon OS. I wonder if Meta will truly keep things open if they win, or if it’s more like a case of EEE?

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1. hintymad ◴[15 Oct 24 21:28 UTC] No.41853302[source]▶
OpenAI does not have its own platform yet but depend on Azure? If so, they probably should build their platform to squeeze out as much cost as possible.
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2. johannes1234321 ◴[15 Oct 24 22:19 UTC] No.41853698[source]▶
They have their own platform - a platform to build AI tools on top of their API. The hardware layer below is abstracted away.