This whole thing is a religion.
This whole thing is a religion.
Google (made a small browser or something) also develops their own models, I don't think it's far fetched to imagine there is at least one developer on the Chrome/Chromium team that is trying to dogfood that stuff.
As for Autodesk, I have no idea what they're up to, but corporate IT seems hellbent on killing themselves, not sure Autodesk would do anything differently so they're probably also trying to jam LLMs down their employees throats.
It's also an advertisement for potential "AI" military applications that they undoubtedly propose after the HoloLens failure:
https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/13/23402195/microsoft-us-ar...
The HoloLens failure is a great example of overhyped technology, just like the bunker busters that are now in the headlines for overpromising.