The U.S. just pledged hundreds of billions to protect its AI leadership. A Chinese startup with a ‘joke of a budget‘ may have already undercut those hopes

[conicalscientist@lemmy.world]

Yeah obviously we've completely lost the plot a long time ago. Nobody even remembers when tech was bands of ragtag nerds making something out of nothing. Now they are the rich whose only purpose to is extract more wealth. Tech what? Who even knows anymore.

That includes the average tech workers. If that angers you then you're lost too.

Nobody has noticed that there's more bragging about compensation than accomplishments. It used to be the other way around. Nerds eagerly showing off to anyone who will listen about whatever thing they cooked up. It's been this way for the past long time long before this LLM AI era.

[valmond@lemmy.world]

Yeah, give me a /technology/ sub that speaks about technology (have you heard about the esp-8266? Did you know a A4988 can steer a NEMA from a Raspberry pi? And even The 6 gen SSD can move X GB/s, what is the fastest quad core under 100$?) and not about funding and drama.

Or am I out of touch with reality ?

[railcar8095@lemm.ee]

First paragraph is something I believe some people will say unironically.

[alphane_moon@lemmy.world]

Shameless self promotion:

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We of course focus on hardware and do include tech-adjacent business/public policy news, but we do cover ESP8266, PCI-E 6 development and that recently released ~$100 AMD CPU.

[fiona@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Anyone who thinks this was about getting AI working was the idiot from the start, there still isn’t even a real use-case for it. This was always about funneling huge amounts of money from the government budget to a bunch of rich assholes. The outcome doesn’t matter at all here.

[sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de]

So, basically the military industrial complex (which liberals support!) but with less genocide? Don't get me wrong, I hate Trump and Republicans are clearly the greater evil, but liberals have helped conservatives funnel trillion of dollars in public assets to the 1% for decades. It was under Bill Clinton that the internet, which was publically funded and publicly built, was given to the 1%. So to me, this is just more of the same: capitalist politicians stealing from us to make the 1% wealthier.

[labbbb2@thelemmy.club]

helped conservatives funnel trillion of dollars in public assets to the 1% for decades. It was under Bill Clinton that the internet, which was publically funded and publicly built, was given to the 1%.

Do you have any proof, or is it just conspiracy theory?

So you want to say that liberals who oppose wealth inequality themselves support that same billionaires? What a BS.

P.S. It seems that democratic party in US are far from "social democratists" as in EU. They were in power many years, but there is still no universal healthcare in US, there is still two-party system in the country, for example, and I suppose they don't care. They also continued to fund Israel when Biden was a president.

[semjaza@lemmynsfw.com]

The person you're replying to may be much further to the left than you give them credit for.

The lesser of two evils is still evil and deserves to be called such. The US is not a benevolent nation.

[ziltoid1991@lemmy.world]

Most democrat politicians aren't Bernie Sanders or Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. Sure, other very progressive dems also do exists, but the majority are those "human-faced capitalism" types.

[valmond@lemmy.world]

Subbed (Or what ever is the Lemmy equivalent)!

[taanegl@lemmy.ml]

Venture capitalists using the US gov as their new marketing platform is a joke in it self.

What's next? Is the next White House briefing gonna be in a stadium, with laser show, motivational music and some ponce going on stage to hype people up?

Griftonomics has reached the upper levels, y'all.

[auli@lemmy.ca]

How was the Internet given to the 1% under Clinton? And people gave it to the tech companies. Internet was supposed to be a bunch of independent sites. But it is easier to just go to a few.

[mothmandelorian@lemmy.world]

The internet as a physical entity was created by the telecommunications industry as they owned and laid all the cabling. Why would you think Clinton gave the internet to the 1% when telecoms owned the entirety of the phone and cable network to begin with?

[tomjuggler@lemmy.world]

Deepseek api is down today - probably a result of their viral success recently..

[giddygap@lemm.ee]

Glad I sold all my NVDA stock one minute before close on Friday. Talk about a lucky strike.

[boonhet@lemm.ee]

there still isn’t even a real use-case for it

There are several real use cases for it, it's just that they're worth like ten bucks a month to me all together and OpenAI is running at a loss while charging... *checks notes* 200 dollars per month for their top tier model?

[embarrassingskidmark@lemmy.world]

Of course it's faster & cheaper when it's being censored & can't access half of human history because the fucking ccp finds it offensive.

[anomnom@sh.itjust.works]

But then none of them will get to claim that he’s the first trillionaire.

[duke_nukem_1990@feddit.org]

If censorship would make it cheaper then surely it wouldn't be that much cheaper than OpenAI. Different things are being censored and blocked but surely, your suggestion is a bit silly.

[raker@lemmy.world]

The model itself is probably not censored. The censorship comes on top. Preliminary tests already show how this can be circumvented.