The Least Crazy And Least Mean Genai Model Will Win
The Next Platform, Monday, September 25,2023
It takes big money as well as big ideas to compete in the generative AI space. Not hundreds of millions of dollars, but billions of dollars. And because of this, and because the stakes are so high as GenAI goes from hype cycle to commercialization, we see alliances and partnerships forming that will shape how we access GenAI functions and who we access them from.
As usual, the odds favor the large, not because might makes right but because might begets more might. Given the $1 billion-plus price tag for a system that can train state of the art large language models that power GenAI - which have transformer models, sometimes also called foundation models, as their underpinnings - there are a limited number of ways that such iron can be brought to bear to advance the state of the art. This, more than any other reason, is why we see Amazon Web Services investing up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropic today.
There is irony as well as poetry in the name that this AI startup chose for itself.