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My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)

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577 points simonw | 1 comments | 29 Jul 25 13:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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stpedgwdgfhgdd ◴[29 Jul 25 14:30 UTC] No.44723879[source]▶
Aside that space invaders from scratch is not representative for real engineering, it will be interesting to see what the business model for Anthropic will be if I can run a solid code generation model on my local machine (no usage tier per hour or week), let’s say, one year from now. At $200 per month for 2 years I can buy a decent Mx with 64GB (or perhaps even 128GB taking residual value into account)
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qingcharles ◴[29 Jul 25 16:00 UTC] No.44724993[source]▶
The frontier models are always going to tempt you with their higher quality and quicker generation, IMO.
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zarzavat ◴[29 Jul 25 18:21 UTC] No.44726682[source]▶
Closed doesn't always win over open. People said the same thing about Windows vs Linux, but even Microsoft was forced to admit defeat and support Linux.

All it takes is some large companies commoditizing their complements. For Linux it was Google, etc. For AI it's Meta and China.

The only thing keeping Anthropic in business is geopolitics. If China were allowed full access to GPUs, they would probably die.

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1. airspresso ◴[30 Jul 25 09:20 UTC] No.44732293{3}[source]▶
> The only thing keeping Anthropic in business is geopolitics. If China were allowed full access to GPUs, they would probably die.

Disagree. Anthropic have a unique approach to how they post-train their models and tune it to be the way they want it. No other lab has managed to reproduce the style and personality of Claude yet, which is currently a key reason why coders prefer it. And since post-training data is secret, it'll take other providers a lot of focused effort to get close to that.