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Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying

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WithinReason ◴[18 Oct 24 12:04 UTC] No.41878604[source]▶
Does OpenAI have any fundamental advantage beyond brand recognition?
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idunnoman1222 ◴[18 Oct 24 17:33 UTC] No.41881647[source]▶
Yes, they already collected all the data. The same data has had walls put up around it
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lolinder ◴[18 Oct 24 18:50 UTC] No.41882333[source]▶
That gives the people who've already started an advantage over newcomers, but it's not a unique advantage to OpenAI.

The question really should be what if anything gives OpenAI an advantage over Anthropic, Google, Meta, or Amazon? There are at least four players intent on eating OpenAI's market share who already have models in the same ballpark as OpenAI. Is there any reason to suppose that OpenAI keeps the lead for long?

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XenophileJKO ◴[18 Oct 24 19:32 UTC] No.41882694[source]▶
I think their current advantage is willingness to risk public usage of frontier technology. This has been and I predict will be their unique dynamic. It forced the entire market to react, but they are still reacting reluctantly. I just played with Gemini this morning for example and it won't make an image with a person in it at all. I think that is all you need to know about most of the competition.
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lolinder ◴[18 Oct 24 19:56 UTC] No.41882907[source]▶
How about Anthropic?
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1. XenophileJKO ◴[18 Oct 24 23:04 UTC] No.41884282{3}[source]▶
I think Anthropic is a serious technical competitor and I personally use their product more than OpenAI, BUT again I think their corporate cautiousness will have them always +/- a small delta from OpenAI's models. I just don't see them taking the risk of releasing a step function model before OpenAI or another competitor. I would love to be proven wrong. I am a little curious if the market pressures are getting to them since they updated their "Responsible Scaling Policy".