I don't think anyone including Americans are really buying that OpenAI or Anthropic are capable of keeping people safe from AI models at this point, given they can't even run evals on them without significant real world harm.

Depends on whether you like have parasocial relationships with machines or not. It will say what is necessary to get you to keep using it on a regular basis.

the weights are the bones

The bones are their money

Is reddit down today?

The line separating HN and reddit runs through the heart of every man

> Still, in the end, open-weight models deter further AI capex.

Good.

Around 2002 there was way more internet bandwidth and infrastructure available than utilized, eventually (not immediately) leading to business models like Netflix current one. I do think a lot about what the AI analogy will be.

> I do think a lot about what the AI analogy will be.

I suspect improved power supplies and some downloadable weights.

Think of how crypto bro’s transitioned to AI bro’s. Same peeps, same hardware, still all looking for a real problem to solve.

Apple would punish him severely unless they cleared it in advance, it might be to their advantage for some reason (negotiating with Google for Gemma rights? idk).

I would be slightly surprised if anything Apple wanted to do with Gemma they couldn't do with Gemini, which they have the right to make various derivatives of.

They could more or less redistribute Gemma as-is in the developer program; they are unlikely to be troubled by any of the licence terms.

You’re right, Apple only has 68 billion dollars in cash, up 40% since last year. Definitely on their last legs.

Free cash? Crazy. I think I can live with the interest of that in the bank.

you could live (100k a year) with the interest of 0.004% of that in the bank.

I remember the infographics of 5-10 years ago. They had 200 billion. What happened? Sinking ship?

They never had $200 billion in cash in any quarter. Not at least since 2014. Besides, how much cash to hold is an executive decision. If the cash balance went down, it doesn't mean their business is not doing well. Cash can be used for Capex, like what the hyperscalers are doing right now. It can be used for buying back equity.

They spent close to $100 billion in stock buybacks during the last 10ish years :-)

How does that compare to other companies?

What do you think?

> Apple is too desperate to be making demands

They don't give a F about AI or any new AI model that was announced this morning. Wasn't there news a while ago about them buying Perplexity?

They didn't buy Perplexity and it indeed rather seems like Perplexity may have damaged the deal by blurting.

Whether things are different now I don't know, but Prism would potentially be a good acquisition.

This is not the first Bonsai model from Prism using this technology, and they've also applied this technology to an image model.

The model aspect isn't that significant (even in this news), because it is Qwen, under the hood. The encoding efficiency is.

Prism's technology might be valuable, and their team could well be.

And they very evidently do care a lot about efficient on-device AI; they just don't care about developing frontier cloud models.

They do, they are low key panicking.

I do not believe they are panicking, not least because I don't think they've finished adjusting Apple Silicon for the task; it will be very interesting to see what happens in the M6 and M7.

I think their strategy is broadly correct, actually; I think there's still a bit of scope for "sit and wait and do it right" here. But acquiring more edge AI tech and edge AI people would potentially be in their interest.

And if they aren't, they should be. They ship some of the cheapest, most capable, and easiest to buy/set up AI hardware out there, and then don't ship any AI software worth speaking of. Apple needs to fix this.

"Apple needs to get into gold prospecting, this funny business of selling the best shovels just can't work out"

Claude Code is bad UX that tries to rip work out of people's hands instead of actually being aligned and figuring out how to increase their differentiated expertise. It's about renting your future from Anthropic rather than building it or embodying more knowledge yourself.

Our startup implemented four day work week without changing comp, and submitted various data as part of a recent Boston College study. Both wellbeing and output increased in statistically significant way with a team of only 15. Hard to avoid confounding with agents adoption, but overall highly recommend it.

Are you already listed on https://4dayweek.io?

If not please let me know and I can add you if you like

I don't think so. We aren't hiring right now, but definitely add us :) Feel free to email the email on my profile.

32 hour work weeks or still 40?

32 hours full comp.

Canada has tens of trillions of dollars in natural resources it could choose to monetize at any time.

It makes no sense to do broad layoffs during sweeping technical change that affects you, your customers and your competitors all at once. Makes way more sense to cling to your best people and re-train them in order to preserve your soul and institutional knowledge. I think deep layoffs + regret as opposed to re-training is actually uniquely American culturally and not a thing elsewhere.

As an American looking in the mirror, it seems that it’s true and one of the things that bothers me the most about our corporate work cultures.