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D'Angelo: Non-frontier AI models six-plus months behind face brutal commoditization

Adam D'Angelo · Bringing AI to the Masses with Adam D'Angelo, CEO of Quora · Mar 20, 2024 · at 22:46

Adam D'Angelo is the CEO of Quora and founder of Poe. He analyzes why lagging AI models lose pricing power and commoditize rapidly.

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“I think when you go six months behind the frontier, even definitely one year, it's brutal. There's just way too many people that are able to get the capital and the resources to train those models. And so it's going to be either fully open source or there will be too many different competitors for anyone to make a good business at that point on the pure technology.”

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